000779
type: Person
sources: Cataloguing system of the Yad Vashem (Jerusalem/Israel) http://www.yadvashem.org.
has birth date: 1924-09-11
has death date: 2006-03-27
has or had agent name: רודולף ורבה
history: professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia. Originally from Slovakia, he is known for having escaped, at the age of 19, from the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War, and for having provided some of the earliest and most detailed information about the mass murder that was taking place there
name: Rudolf Vrba