Ein Auschwitz-Bericht und das Schicksal des Theresienstädter Familienlagers
An Auschwitz report and the fate of the Terezin family camp
Author(s): Miroslav KárnýSubject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Studies in violence and power, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Židovské Muzeum v Praze
Keywords: concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau; Walter Rosenberg (Rudolf Vrba); Alfred Wetzler; prisoners;
Summary/Abstract: The article reminds the readers of the well-known escape of two prisoners from the concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. They were Walter Rosenberg (Rudolf Vrba) and Alfred Wetzler. When in Slovakia, after the escape, they wrote a report on the genocide they had experienced (Vrba-Wetzler report). The report was sent to London via Geneva and it was on its basis that the world public learned about the mass murder of the prisoners in the Terezin family camp on March 8—9, 1944. The author describes what happened with the report later on and also informs the readers about the Terezin family camp in general.
Journal: Judaica Bohemiae
- Issue Year: XXI/1985
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 9-28
- Page Count: 20
- Language: German
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