Rudolph Vrba escape from Auschwitz
The Escape Artist
Jonathan Freedland 2022 BeavLib 940.5318 FRE
- 1944 April 7 to 24, maps from Auschwitz to Zilina Slovakia
- 001 tobacco soaked in petrol dog repellent
002 Alfred Vrba & Fred Wetzler . . 6pm escape alarm
- 003 3 day search, woodpile above partly dismantled by guards searching
- 006 Postenkette abziehen "remove post chain"
- 007 barely lift off planks, would have failed sans guard dismantling
011 Flashback ... Walter Rosenberg (later A. Vrba) born 11 Sep 1924 Topoľčany Slovakia, moved to Jaklovce in eastern Slovakia
013 tzitzit under a cummerbund