Rudolf Vrba fought that impulse, with only partial success. Today, his story has something profound to tell us: The first line of defense against evil and catastrophe is truth, ...

Rudolf Vrba’s story is one of them. Vrba’s story is told in the important book “The Escape Artist,” by the British journalist Jonathan Freedland. Vrba was one of the first Jews to escape ...

Rudolf Vrba was not an entirely new creation. There had been an influential Czech Catholic priest of that name who had died five years earlier, ...

Greenstein explains. Vrba’s efforts in early 1944 to warn other Jews of their coming fate in the Nazi death camps were betrayed by European leaders of the Zionist movement, who silenced him.

In April 1944, a Slovak Jewish prisoner, later to be known as Rudolf Vrba and then just 19 years old, would become one of the very first Jews to escape from Auschwitz.

To avoid detection by the Nazis, Rosenberg took the identity and name of an Aryan Czech — Rudolf Vrba. That name, washed clean of any Germanic taint, would be the one he kept for the rest of his ...

Rudolf Vrba was sent to Auschwitz at the age of seventeen, and, because he was young and in good health, he was not killed immediately but put to labor in the camp.

Author and [Guardian] columnist Jonathan Freedland detailed the life of Rudolf Vrba, who spent two years at Auschwitz and became the first Jew to break out of the concentration camp. The Museum of ...

The Escape Artist, by Jonathan Freedland (Harper).In 1944, the Auschwitz escapee Rudolf Vrba, intent on piercing the “veil of ignorance” surrounding the Nazis’ crimes, related his and others ...