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  • Auschwitz escapee who told the world dies in B.C.

    03/31/2006 3:08:46 AM PST · by lunarbicep · 17 replies · 1,506+ views
    theglobeandmail ^ | march 31, 06 | MARK HUME
    VANCOUVER -- When Rudolph Vrba fled Auschwitz in the spring of 1944, he made what may have been the most monumental escape of all time, slipping past Nazi guards and attack dogs that were trained to rip prisoners to pieces. Although his life ended quietly this week in Vancouver, where he succumbed to cancer at age 82, his escape shook the world 62 years ago because of the secret he and a fellow prisoner revealed. They told the world about Auschwitz. Dr. Vrba's feat was remarkable not merely because of what he did -- managing, with prisoner Alfred Wetzler, to...