Escape From Auschwitz: Vrba’s and Wetzler’s Escape Path
Follow the route used by Vrba and Wetzler in their “great feat of escapology” when fleeing the Auschwitz death camps.

Follow the route used by Vrba and Wetzler in their “great feat of escapology” when fleeing the Auschwitz death camps.
This appalling massacre was one of Germany’s most heavily-guarded secrets, carefully concealed from the outside world. But two Auschwitz prisoners, Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, were determined to expose the horrors of the Nazi genocide.
Learn the stories of two survivors of the Nazi death camps that fell in love after the war and what life was like growing up as a child of Holocaust survivor.
The death factory at Auschwitz was a closely guarded secret of the Third Reich – until two men, Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, escaped to tell the world.
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