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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.
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 ...
The Vrba–Wetzler report is one of three documents that comprise what is known as the Auschwitz Protocols, otherwise known as the Auschwitz Report or the Auschwitz notebook. It is a 33-page eye-witness account of the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust .
The Auschwitz Report, Slovakia’s contender for the International Feature Oscar, tells the true story of two Slovakian Jews who escape Auschwitz in a bid to tell the world about the Nazi ...
The information, later called the Vrba-Wetzler report, is believed to have reached the Jewish community in Budapest by April 27. Roswell McClelland, the U.S. War Refugee Board representative in Switzerland , is known to have received a copy by mid-June, and sent it to the board's executive director on June 16, according to Raul Hilberg . [ 29 ]
Central Committee of the Liberated Jews; Abbreviation: ZK: Formation: July 1, 1945; 79 years ago (): Founder: Dr. Zalman Grinberg, Rabbi Abraham Klausner: Dissolved ...
Wetzler is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Alfréd Wetzler (1918–1988), Austro-Hungarian writer; Ben Wetzler (born 1991), American baseball pitcher;
We Will Never Die is a dramatic pageant dedicated to the "2 million Civilian Jewish Dead of Europe" staged before an audience of 40,000 at Madison Square Garden on March 9, 1943, to raise public awareness of the ongoing mass murder of Europe's Jews.