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Rudolf Vrba was one of the first Jews to escape from Auschwitz in April 1944. He and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers, and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the first full account of Auschwitz to Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the Pope. Vrba helped save two hundred thousand Jewish lives, but he never stopped believing it could have been many more. He deserves to take his place alongside Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler, and Primo Levi as one of the handful of individuals whose stories define our understanding of the Holocaust.

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The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz

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Table of Contents

PART I

The Preparations

Star

Five Hundred Reichsmarks

Majdanek

PART II

The Camp

We Were Slaves

Kanada

The Final Solution

Big Business

The Ramp

The Memory Man

Birkenau

‘It Has Been Wonderful’

PART III

The Escape

Escape Was Lunacy

Russian Lessons

The Hideout

Let My People Go

Underground

On the Run

Crossing the Border

PART IV

The Report

In Black and White

Men of God

What Can I Do?

London Has Been Informed

Hungarian Salami

PART V

The Shadow

A Wedding with Guns

A New Nation, a New England

Canada

I Know a Way Out

Flowers of Emptiness

Too Many to Count

Prologue

7 April 1944

The most important details in this text are the details of Walter and Fred's escape from Auschwitz. Walter and Fred climbed on top of the timbers and found an opening in the roof of their home. The SS men and their dogs searched for them for three days and nights, until they heard the sound of a siren and the SS returned to barracks. At 6.30 p.m., Walter and Fred heard the order to take down the grosse Postenkette, the outer chain of sentry posts, shouted from one watchtower to the next and then the next, and the cordon shrunk to lock in only the inner camp. This was the great flaw in the Auschwitz system, the gap through which he and Fred had long planned to make their escape.

Walter and Fred's life was saved by a random moment of good luck, which could not have been more perfectly timed. The most important details in this text are the details of Walter and Fred's escape from Auschwitz. Walter and Fred climbed on top of the timbers and found an opening in the roof of their home. The SS men and their dogs searched for them for three days and nights, until they heard the sound of a siren and the SS returned to barracks. At 6.30 p.m., Walter and Fred heard the order to take down the grosse Postenkette, the outer chain of sentry posts, shouted from one watchtower to the next and then the next, and the cordon shrunk to lock in only the inner camp.

This was the great flaw in the Auschwitz system, the gap through which he and Fred had long planned to make their escape. Walter and Fred's life was saved by a random moment of good luck, which could not have been more perfectly timed. The most important details in this text are the details of Walter and Fred's escape from Auschwitz. Walter and Fred climbed on top of the timbers and found an opening in the roof of their home. The SS men and their dogs searched for them for three days and nights, until they heard the sound of a siren and the SS returned to barracks.

At 6.30 p.m., Walter and Fred heard the order to take down the grosse Postenkette, the outer chain of sentry posts, shouted from one watchtower to the next and then the next, and the cordon shrunk to lock in only the inner camp. This was the great flaw in the Auschwitz system, the gap through which he and Fred had long planned to make their escape. Walter and Fred's life was saved by a random moment of good luck, which could not have been more perfectly timed. The most important details in this text are the details of Walter and Fred's escape from Auschwitz. Walter and Fred climbed on top of the timbers and found an opening in the roof of their home.

The SS men and their dogs searched for them for three days and nights, until they heard the sound of a siren and the SS returned to barracks. At 6.30 p.m., Walter and Fred heard the order to take down the grosse Postenkette, the outer chain of sentry posts, shouted from one watchtower to the next and then the next, and the cordon shrunk to lock in only the inner camp. This was the great flaw in the Auschwitz system, the gap through which he and Fred had long planned to make their escape. Walter and Fred's life was saved by a random moment of good luck, which could not have been more perfectly timed.

PART I

The Preparations

Star

Walter Rosenberg was born in Topol’any, Slovakia in 1924, and his mother, Ilona, welcomed him like a miracle. He was precociously clever and enjoyed life in the country. He was expelled from school and moved to Trnava, a small town thirty miles east of Bratislava, where he joined up with a group of Jewish teenagers who had been banished from the realm of learning. The Tiso regime was determined to impoverish and isolate Jews, banning them from government jobs, imposing a quota on the numbers allowed to work in the professions, and banning them from owning cars, radios, and sports equipment. The national socialist paramilitaries pressured the people of Trnava and every other Slovak town or city to boycott Jewish businesses and Jews in general.

From 1940, Slovak gendarmes took the policy of expropriating Jewish property to a more direct level. Walter Rosenberg was born in Topol’any, Slovakia in 1924, and his mother, Ilona, welcomed him like a miracle. He was precociously clever and enjoyed life in the country. He was expelled from school and moved to Trnava, a small town thirty miles east of Bratislava, where he joined up with a group of Jewish teenagers who had been banished from the realm of learning. The Tiso regime was determined to impoverish and isolate Jews, banning them from government jobs, imposing a quota on the numbers allowed to work in the professions, and banning them from owning cars, radios, and sports equipment.

The national socialist paramilitaries pressured the people of Trnava and every other Slovak town or city to boycott Jewish businesses and Jews in general. From 1940, Slovak gendarmes took the policy of expropriating Jewish property to a more direct level. Walter Rosenberg was born in Topol’any, Slovakia in 1924, and his mother, Ilona, welcomed him like a miracle. He was precociously clever and enjoyed life in the country. He was expelled from school and moved to Trnava, a small town thirty miles east of Bratislava, where he joined up with a group of Jewish teenagers who had been banished from the realm of learning.

The Tiso regime was determined to impoverish and isolate Jews, banning them from government jobs, imposing a quota on the numbers allowed to work in the professions, and banning them from owning cars, radios, and sports equipment. The national socialist paramilitaries pressured the people of Trnava and every other Slovak town or city to boycott Jewish businesses and Jews in general. From 1940, Slovak gendarmes took the policy of expropriating Jewish property to a more direct level. Walter Rosenberg was born in Topol’any, Slovakia in 1924, and his mother, Ilona, welcomed him like a miracle. He was precociously clever and enjoyed life in the country.

He was expelled from school and moved to Trnava, a small town thirty miles east of Bratislava, where he joined up with a group of Jewish teenagers who had been banished from the realm of learning. The Tiso regime was determined to impoverish and isolate Jews, banning them from government jobs, imposing a quota on the numbers allowed to work in the professions, and banning them from owning cars, radios, and sports equipment. The national socialist paramilitaries pressured