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02328aam a2200337 4500 001 A3A43720BDE711EBA6FF6E734CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210526010012 008 190908s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1631584715 020 $a 9781631584718 040 $d IaEs $d SILO 100 1 $a Vrba, Rudolph. 245 1 $a I Escaped from Auschwitz : $b The Story of a Man Whose Actions Led to the Largest Single Rescue of Jews in World War II. 264 1 $a New York, New York : $b Racehouse Publishing, $c 2020. 300 $a xix, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. 500 $a Originally published under the title: I cannot forgive. Previously published in 2002 by Barricase Books, Inc. 500 $a April 7, 1944 -- This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, fled over one hundred miles to be the first to give the graphic and detailed descriptions of the atrocities of Auschwitz. Originally published in the early 1960s, I Escaped from Auschwitz is the striking autobiography of none other than Rudolf Vrba himself. Vrba details his life leading up to, during, and after his escape from his 21-month internment in Auschwitz. Vrba and Wetzler manage to evade Nazi authorities looking for them and make contact with the Jewish council in Zilina, Slovakia, informing them about the truth of the 'unknown destination' of Jewish deportees all across Europe. This first-hand report alerted Western authorities, such as Pope Pius XII, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, to the reality of Nazi annihilation camps -- information that until then had only been recognised as nasty rumours. 541 $d 20210223. 600 14 $a Vrba, Rudolf. 610 27 $a Auschwitz (Concentration camp.) 650 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) $x Personal narratives. 941 $a 7 952 $l TXPC862 $d 20240224011255.0 952 $l VUPB454 $d 20230812011150.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20230725011209.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230203012411.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20220107011257.0 952 $l SWPB124 $d 20210604011447.0 952 $l EBPE325 $d 20210526010227.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A3A43720BDE711EBA6FF6E734CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search