Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler Fled Auschwitz and Wrote a Report
by Kathy Warnes
Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz, and warned the world about assembly-line murder as Jewish leaders debated how to stop the Nazis.
Two young men, Rudolf Vrba, 20, and Alfred Wetzler, 22, crouched in a woodpile outside of the main gate at Auschwitz listening to the camp noises. They could hear the SS guards shouting, their dogs barking, and the low murmur of people talking behind barbed wire.
It was April 7, 1944, a desperate spring for Rudolf and Alfred and all European Jews. As the Nazis tightened their stranglehold on Europe, they deported more Jews to Auschwitz to be gassed and the camp crematoria burned day and night. The smell of burning bodies hung in the air, mingling with the smell of their own bodies which they had slathered with gasoline soaked in Russian tobacco to hopefully mask their scent from the SS dogs.
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