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  • They questioned Vrba and Wetzler each separately to make sure their stories matched and redacted their accounts in Hungarian and German into a 32 page account that became known as the Vrba-Wetzler report and as "The Auschwitz Protocols."

    Tom Teicholz: Remembering Rudolf Vrba's 5 Per Cent 2008

  • While in Istanbul Brand supposedly passed on an accurate plan of Auschwitz (possibly the Vrba-Wetzler report) and called for the gas chambers and railway lines to be bombed.

    Books 2010

  • Vrba went on to become an academic and eventually settled in Canada where for many years he was a pharmacology professor at the University of British Columbia.

    Books 2010

  • “Rudolf Vrba, scientist and professor 1924-2006,” in The Globe and Mail.

    Books 2010

  • Vrba was Auschwitz prisoner number 44070, a number that was tattooed to the top of his left forearm.

    Selections 2010

  • Details from the Vrba-Wetzler report were broadcast on June 15, 1944 by the BBC, and on June 20 by The New York Times, causing the Allies to put pressure on the Hungarian government to stop the mass deportation of Jews to the camp.

    Dark Secrets: We KNEW About The Holocaust And DID Nothing. | myFiveBest 2010

  • We did not really let Milan do anything, we had about four chances, said the jubilant Plzen coach Pavel Vrba.

    Viktoria Plzen 2-2 Milan | Champions League Group H match report 2011

  • Vrba was Auschwitz prisoner number 44070, a number that was tattooed to the top of his left forearm.

    Teaching 2010

  • The attitude of the Allies changed with receipt of the very detailed report by compiled by two Jewish prisoners, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, who escaped on April 7, 1944, and which finally convinced Allied leaders of the truth about Auschwitz.

    Dark Secrets: We KNEW About The Holocaust And DID Nothing. | myFiveBest 2010

  • Once both groups had presented their information, the introduction to the Vrba-Brand story could be read as well as the concluding/summative portion.

    Books 2010

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