Early revelations about the scale of the Holocaust were due in part to the actions of another Vancouverite, Rudolf Vrba. Vrba, who died in Vancouver in 2006 and is buried in the Lower Mainland ...

In April 1944, Jewish prisoners Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler miraculously escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp and fled through Nazi-occupied Poland to find refuge in Žilina, Slovakia ...

However, the horrifying truth was brought to light a year earlier by Alfred Wetzler, 26, and Rudolf Vrba, 19. On April 7, 1944, they managed to escape the death camp. Exhausted, the men trekked ...

You can watch the film here. Peter Bebjak’s Slovakian drama ‘The Auschwitz Report’ tells the true story of how two Slovakian Jews, Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler, escaped the hell that was the ...

They called it a “paradise” but, these days, the former home of Auschwitz camp commander Rudolf Höss and his family is a pokey, depressing fixer-upper. Step inside and the entrance hallway ...

The author of those accounts was not some terrified witness. He was Kai's grandfather Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz and one of the most brutal criminals of the Second World War.

This was not just any house. It is the villa where the commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Hoess lived with his wife and five children – including Brigitte, who lived there until she was 11 years old.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research ...

The villa of Rudolf Höss, Auschwitz’s longest-serving commandant, is being transformed into a research centre dedicated to fighting extremism. Once a chilling symbol of Nazi atrocities, the house will ...