Rudolf Vrba
Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who was deported to Auschwitz in 1942. He escaped from the camp in April 1944 with Alfréd Wetzler. After the war Vrva trained as a biochemists, working mostly in England and Canada. He died of lung cancer in 2007, at the age of 90.
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Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who was deported to Auschwitz in 1942. He escaped from the camp in April 1944 with Alfréd Wetzler. They co-wrote a detailed report about the mass murder that was taking place there. The report reached George Mantello in Switzerland almost two months after it arrived in Budapest. Mantello immediately publicized a summary of the report, which led to large scale grass roots protests in Switzerland against the atrocities. The Swiss people are credited with having halted the mass deportation of Hungary’s Jews in July 1944, saving more than 200,000 lives. After the war Vrva trained as a biochemists, working mostly in England and Canada. He died of lung cancer in 2007, at the age of 90. He was buried in a Jewish cemetery in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He is survived by his wife, Gerta Sidonová, and their three children, all of whom survived the Holocaust. He also leaves behind a son, Michael, who worked as a banker in New York City. He has also a daughter, Victoria, who is now a well-known philanthropist in the Czech Republic. He had a son and a daughter-in-law, both of whom died in the Holocaust, and a step-son, David, who also survived the Nazi concentration camps. He wrote a book about his experiences, “Auschwitz: A Memoirs of a Jew in a Second World War”.
He died in 2011, aged 90, at a nursing home in New Jersey, where he lived with his wife and three children. He leaves a daughter and a son- in-law in New Hampshire. He says he would like to have been able to spend more time with his family and grandchildren, but he is too old to live on his own. He would have liked to see his children grow up and have a family of their own, but they died before he was able to do so. He never had the opportunity to see them grow up. He said: “I want to see my grandchildren grow up, and I want them to have a better life than I did.” He also wants to see more than one generation of his family survive. He wants to be remembered as a man who helped to save the lives of so many people. He wanted to be a role model for his grandchildren. He believes that they should be able to grow up in a better country than the one he grew up in. He did not want to live in a Nazi-occupied Poland. He didn’t want to die in a concentration camp. He doesn’t want his family to have to suffer the same fate as he did. He does not want his children to be forced to live a life of servitude. He hopes to see a better world than he did, and he wants to help others to do the same. He wishes to see the world be a better place than it is now.
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