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The Vrba–Wetzler report (the term "Auschwitz Protocols" is sometimes used to refer to just this report), a 33-page report written around 24 April 1944, after Vrba and Wetzler, two Slovak prisoners, who escaped from Auschwitz 7–11 April 1944. [6] In the Protocols, it was 33 pages long and was called "No 1. The Extermination Camps of ...
Alfréd Israel Wetzler (10 May 1918 [1] – 8 February 1988), who wrote under the alias Jozef Lánik, was a Slovak Jewish writer. He is known for escaping from Auschwitz concentration camp and co-writing the Vrba-Wetzler Report , which helped halt the deportation of Jews from Hungary, saving up to 200,000 lives.
[4] [5] The Protocols included a seven-page report from Arnost Rosin and Czesław Mordowicz as chapter III to the Vrba–Wetzler report and an earlier report, known as the "Polish Major's report", written by Jerzy Tabeau. Tabeau escaped from Auschwitz on 19 November 1943 and compiled his report between December 1943 and January 1944. [6]
Entitled The Extermination Camps of Auschwitz (Oświęcim) and Birkenau in Upper Silesia, the release included the 33-page Vrba–Wetzler report; a six-page report from Arnost Rosin and Czesław Mordowicz, who escaped from Auschwitz on 27 May 1944; and the 19-page Polish major's report, written in December 1943 by Polish escapee Jerzy Tabeau. [1]
4 June; The New York Times describes the gas chambers and said that Jews were being executed. 6 June; Allied invasion of Normandy, France. mid June; The Vrba–Wetzler report reaches the British and US governments. 15 June; The BBC World Service reports that 4,000 Jews from Theresienstadt were killed in gas chambers at Auschwitz during March ...
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e-newspaperarchives.ch (or e-npa.ch) is a website run by the Swiss National Library which provides free digitized archives of many Swiss newspapers. It is the successor to the Swiss Press Online site started in 2011, which it succeeded in 2018. As of 2024, it provides access to 190 Swiss newspapers in several languages.