Comments on: The Vrba-Wetzler Report http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/escape-from-auschwitz/the-vrba-wetzler-report/45/ Part detective story, part true-life drama, SECRETS OF THE DEAD unearths evidence from around the world, challenging prevailing ideas and throwing fresh light on unexplained events. Using the most up-to-date science in the laboratory and in the field, scientists and researchers examine the missing pieces of each puzzle, completing the picture of what had been merely an assemblage of suppositions. Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:33:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lisette Racine (Canada) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/escape-from-auschwitz/the-vrba-wetzler-report/45/#comment-380 Lisette Racine (Canada) Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:58:19 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=45#comment-380 I watched this PBS Presentation with such attention and wish I could view it again.it taught me alot about the situation in Auschwitz and the extermination of these innocent people.I am very interested in this part of History and am also looking for some movies that tell the story as it was.I may purchase this DVD for future viewing.Thanks again for offering this to the viewers. I watched this PBS Presentation with such attention and wish I could view it again.it taught me alot about the situation in Auschwitz and the extermination of these innocent people.I am very interested in this part of History and am also looking for some movies that tell the story as it was.I may purchase this DVD for future viewing.Thanks again for offering this to the viewers.

]]> By: Lee Rapp http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/escape-from-auschwitz/the-vrba-wetzler-report/45/#comment-302 Lee Rapp Tue, 20 May 2008 23:33:32 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=45#comment-302 Wonderful job. I wish that I could access the information sooner. Wonderful job. I wish that I could access the information sooner.

]]> By: Athena http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/escape-from-auschwitz/the-vrba-wetzler-report/45/#comment-159 Athena Wed, 07 May 2008 18:33:57 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=45#comment-159 It is a great sotry and it should lots of infermation on world war 2 It is a great sotry and it should lots of infermation on world war 2

]]> By: a .j. kelly http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/escape-from-auschwitz/the-vrba-wetzler-report/45/#comment-141 a .j. kelly Mon, 05 May 2008 18:27:53 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=45#comment-141 well done story !! perhaps we should remember how apathy is so dangerous..........remember rwanda and save darfur! well done story !! perhaps we should remember how apathy is so dangerous……….remember rwanda and save darfur!

]]> By: Susan Woll http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/escape-from-auschwitz/the-vrba-wetzler-report/45/#comment-138 Susan Woll Mon, 05 May 2008 03:40:16 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=45#comment-138 Typical shoddy work when it comes to the Holocaust. I found an egregious error a month or 2 ago on the US Holocaust Museum Website FAQs. It stated that a few HUNDRED prisoners a day were killed at Auschwitz. I had to call them and tell them didn't they mean THOUSANDS a day. They basically gave me the run- around, told me I was full of it, but I noticed they took the information down right away. I guess you can't trust any one source to be accurate. I am especially grateful to learn about Wells being an antisemetic pig and to learn about the other two heros who escaped to warn an uncaring unheeding world!This program needs to be redone to include the correct information. To be less than accurate is an insult to the millions who died at the hands of the criminal regime that was the Nazis. Typical shoddy work when it comes to the Holocaust. I found an egregious error a month or 2 ago on the US Holocaust Museum Website FAQs. It stated that a few HUNDRED prisoners a day were killed at Auschwitz. I had to call them and tell them didn’t they mean THOUSANDS a day. They basically gave me the run- around, told me I was full of it, but I noticed they took the information down right away. I guess you can’t trust any one source to be accurate. I am especially grateful to learn about Wells being an antisemetic pig and to learn about the other two heros who escaped to warn an uncaring unheeding world!This program needs to be redone to include the correct information. To be less than accurate is an insult to the millions who died at the hands of the criminal regime that was the Nazis.

]]> By: cheryl http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/escape-from-auschwitz/the-vrba-wetzler-report/45/#comment-132 cheryl Sun, 04 May 2008 05:50:07 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=45#comment-132 Please show this again as I had missed it and would like to view it. Please show this again as I had missed it and would like to view it.

]]> By: Monica Biestek http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/escape-from-auschwitz/the-vrba-wetzler-report/45/#comment-127 Monica Biestek Sat, 03 May 2008 15:47:42 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=45#comment-127 What about the Polish People they too have suffered and we do have survivors who have survived the "Concentration Camps"? What about the Polish People they too have suffered and we do have survivors who have survived the “Concentration Camps”?

]]> By: norma rosenfeld http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/escape-from-auschwitz/the-vrba-wetzler-report/45/#comment-126 norma rosenfeld Sat, 03 May 2008 15:45:58 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=45#comment-126 A fascinating subject; well done!! An important story to be told. A fascinating subject; well done!! An important story to be told.

]]> By: Stephan Pickering http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/escape-from-auschwitz/the-vrba-wetzler-report/45/#comment-117 Stephan Pickering Fri, 02 May 2008 23:35:15 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=45#comment-117 As a correction to my 30 April 2008 note, after going through my files: it was Jan Karski who met with H.G. Wells, not Rudolf Vrba. Karski was well aware of the Rudolf Vrba/Wetzler report after he met with Wells (as was Wells before his death). Karski, and so many others, did much to describe the slaughters. Wells, of course, remained a protonazi (his scifi is riddled with antisemitic, exterminationist propoganda). Perhaps, now would be the time for a re-examination of Schindler (his wife did much of the 'saving'). Perhaps, Roman Polanski will break his silence (his father was part of the Schindler groups) in light of the fact that THE PIANIST is a whitewash of a self-hating musician who refused to go to Eretz Yisroel and share his music. Schindler remains an enigmatic contradictory figure. STEPHAN PICKERING / Chofetz Chayim ben-Avraham As a correction to my 30 April 2008 note, after going through my files: it was Jan Karski who met with H.G. Wells, not Rudolf Vrba. Karski was well aware of the Rudolf Vrba/Wetzler report after he met with Wells (as was Wells before his death). Karski, and so many others, did much to describe the slaughters. Wells, of course, remained a protonazi (his scifi is riddled with antisemitic, exterminationist propoganda). Perhaps, now would be the time for a re-examination of Schindler (his wife did much of the ’saving’). Perhaps, Roman Polanski will break his silence (his father was part of the Schindler groups) in light of the fact that THE PIANIST is a whitewash of a self-hating musician who refused to go to Eretz Yisroel and share his music. Schindler remains an enigmatic contradictory figure.
STEPHAN PICKERING / Chofetz Chayim ben-Avraham

]]> By: James Parker http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/features/escape-from-auschwitz/the-vrba-wetzler-report/45/#comment-113 James Parker Fri, 02 May 2008 15:48:30 +0000 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/?p=45#comment-113 Thanks for this amplification. It explains something for me. I was left with some questions following the PBS account of the Slovakian Council's disbelief of Vrba's verbal report, such as, "How did they come to request a written report?", or did the written documentation follow unsolicited? Another comment: The Nazi's burned 200 Jews alive in a synagogue in Bedzin, Poland, just a week after beginning the invasion of Poland in September 1939. This shocking event, even in the context of war, must have made clear that war for the Nazis meant mass murder of Jews. Thanks for this amplification. It explains something for me.
I was left with some questions following the PBS account of the Slovakian Council’s disbelief of Vrba’s verbal report, such as, “How did they come to request a written report?”, or did the written documentation follow unsolicited?

Another comment: The Nazi’s burned 200 Jews alive in a synagogue in Bedzin, Poland, just a week after beginning the invasion of Poland in September 1939. This shocking event, even in the context of war, must have made clear that war for the Nazis meant mass murder of Jews.

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