Rudolf Vrba

  • רודולף ורבה
Identifier
000779
Dates
1924-2006
Type of Entity
Person

History

professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia. Originally from Slovakia, he is known for having escaped, at the age of 19, from the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War, and for having provided some of the earliest and most detailed information about the mass murder that was taking place there

Places

  • Auschwitz II - Birkenau,מחנה השמדה,Poland

  • Auschwitz I,מחנה ריכוז,מחנה,Poland

  • Auschwitz,מחנה,Poland

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