Vrba described the ramp, selection, the Sonderkommando, and the camps' internal organization; the building of Auschwitz III and how Jews were being used as slave labour for Krupp, Siemens, IG Farben, and DAW; and the gas chambers. [116] Wetzler gave them the data from the central registry hidden in the remaining tube, and described the high death toll among Soviet POWs, the destruction of the Czech family camp, the medical experiments, and the names of doctors involved in them. [117] He also handed over the label from the Zyklon B canister. [118] Every word, he wrote, "has the effect of a blow on the head". [119] To have achieved what Vrba did — and did so young — leads Freedland to judge him as “a man in full”, who lived a long and complex life. To some extent Vrba reinvented himself after the Holocaust, keeping the name awarded him by his resistance hosts once he had escaped, and never reverting to being Walter Rosenberg. He became “a scientist and a scholar, a husband, a father and a grandfather”. From there, the report went on to list the transports, each one denoted, and committed to memory, by the numbers that were allocated to the handful selected from each for work:

Their ultimate goal after their escape was to warn the world about Germany's death factories so Jews would stop passively boarding trains that took them to be gassed and staved at camps. At that time the SS was preparing to deport 1 Million Hungarian Jews to their deaths at Auschwitz. To get the word out, they co-authored the infamous Vrba-Wetzler Report, which provided incontrovertible evidence of the Nazi’s mass extermination of Jews at death camps. Vrba testified against Robert Mulka of the SS at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, telling the court that he had seen Mulka on the Judenrampe at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The court found that Vrba "made an excellent and intelligent impression" and would have been particularly observant at the time because he was planning to escape. It ruled that Mulka had indeed been on the ramp, and sentenced him to 14 years in prison. [204] I have read many books on the holocaust. If I had to recommend one, it would be this one for several reasons.In deze getuigenis van Rudolf Vrba is het als lezer bijna onmogelijk je voor te stellen waar deze man allemaal doorheen is gegaan. Ik wist zelf niet veel over de Slowaakse joden, in dit boek staat meer dan in andere boeken over de Oost- Europese landen en hun oorlogsverleden. After that, Krasňanský readied the document for dissemination. He got to work on a translation of the text into a language that would be comprehensible to the greatest number of people: it certainly would not go very far in Slovak. Krasňanský decided it would be most effective if it were written in German. Thank goodness the report still made it to Britian, America, The Vatican and other influential Allies. Thought approximately 400,000 Hungrian Jews were tortured and murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau Thanks to Vrba and Wetzler the over a million scheduled to be transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau over 600,000 lives were spared and saved. Award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Jonathan Freedland tells the astonishing true story of Rudolf Vrba, the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world of a truth too few were willing to hear.

What was more, when the final text mentioned the planned extension of the camp, the area known as ‘Mexico’ where Walter and Fred had hidden for three days and nights, there was no hint that this section, BIII in Nazi officialese, was apparently intended to contain a new influx of Hungarian prisoners. On the contrary, the report insisted that ‘The purpose of this extensive planning is not known to us.’ Faced daily with the threat of dying. Rudi had to be strong and his will to survive beyond any means. In his struggle all he could think of was to escape and warn others. He calculated that if the perscuted Jews rose and faught that the senseless murders would stop. Risking his own life, Rudi and his friend Wetzler. A struggle to get to safety both Vrba and Wetzler gave the accounts and numbers of those being murdered in cold blood in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Constantly, people from the heart of Europe were disappearing, and they were arriving to the same place with the same ignorance of the fate of the previous transport. I knew... that within a couple of hours after they arrived there, ninety percent would be gassed. [213] Trial of Ernst Zündel [ edit ]

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Only now did I understand that this was the same man who lay quiet and motionless for three days in the hollow pile of lumber while Auschwitz was on maximum alert, only a few yards from the armed SS men and their dogs combing the area so thoroughly. If he could do that, then he certainly could also don the mask of a professor and manage everyday conversation with his colleagues in Vancouver, Canada, that paradise land that is never fully appreciated by its own citizens, a people without the slightest notion of the planet Auschwitz. [225] Death [ edit ] It had taken them far too long, but they had at last reached the end of the vast “zone of interest” that enveloped the camp. For a moment at least, they could congratulate themselves. On 10 April 1944 they had each achieved what no Jew had done before: they had broken out of Auschwitz. And now they would embark on their true mission: to warn the world of the horrors within. Some of them were difficult, scratchy people. I think that’s legitimate. But I also think that it played a big part in why he wasn’t more famous. He wasn’t like Eli Wiesel. An encounter with Wiesel was like an encounter with the Dalai Lama. Rudi was a more awkward customer. He unnerved even [filmmaker] Claude Lanzmann by his tendency to smile ironically, when talking about the most appalling things a human being could ever witness. I’ve read court transcripts where even the judge gets irritated by him”.