Auschwitz was Hitler’s largest concentration camp. Nazi records show that tens of thousands of Jews from German-occupied territories were sent there to be executed each month, and by 1944, 12,000 Jews ...

Rudolf Vrba, 81, one of a handful of prisoners to escape from Auschwitz during World War II and the co-author of the first eyewitness report detailing the extent of the atrocities there, died of ...

Rudolf Vrba, one of the few prisoners to escape from Auschwitz during World War II and the coauthor of the first eyewitness report detailing the extent of the atrocities there, has died. He was 81.

ORLANDO, Fla. – No. 123 Jakub Vrba opened the 2025 NCAA Singles Championships with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 win over No. 49 Peter Benjamin Privara (Harvard) to advance to the Round of 32. Vrba becomes the ...

One day in 1978 Rudolf Vrba was in a restaurant in New York when he spotted a number tattooed on a waiter’s arm. Vrba (pictured) told him that he must be a Jew from Bedzin, Poland, who had arrived in ...

Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler came from the same hometown, Trnava in Slovakia, and that meant they could trust each other. Together, they probed Auschwitz for weaknesses, formulating escape plans ...