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A Daring Escape
Wetzel, and Vrba, escaped Auschwitz and saved thousands of
Jews because of secret maps.
Slovakian Jew, Alfred Wetzler, escaped the Nazi concentration camp
with his friend Rudolf Vrba in 1944 and smuggled a ground plan of it
to Allied forces.
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A Fight For Life
He writes, “It is incredible how tough human life can be, how
quickly a person, even with a broken arm, a dislocated foot, a
broken head, and bitten by dogs, will do what is asked of him when
over him hangs the cudgel waved by the good will of the Reich.”
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Hide Here
Wetzel dug under the Auschwitz fence, fought off dogs, and hid
in a woodpile for four days.
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Smuggled Maps And Met With Churchill
Vrba and Wetzel brought
maps, and a can of Zyklon-B, to Churchill. He
said "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
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Secret Maps Used For Bombing Raid
The map was used by Winston Churchill to order the bombings of
government buildings in Hungary, killing Nazi officials in charge of
deporting Jews to Auschwitz.
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The Vrba-Wetzler report, also known as Auschwitz Protocols
It is held
so sacred there are copies held
in the Vatican, US Holocaust Museum, and Franklin Roosevelt's
library.
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Israel Toasts These Two
Polish President Lech Kaczynski, and Israeli President Shimon
Peres, salute Wetzel and Vrba at the museum on Polish Jews.
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