7 April 1944 | Two Slovak Jews Rudolf Vrba (b. 1924, no. 44070) and Alfred Wetzler (b. 1918, no. 29162) escaped from the German Nazi camp Auschwitz
7 April 1944 | Two Slovak Jews Rudolf Vrba (b. 1924, no. 44070) and Alfred Wetzler (b. 1918, no. 29162) escaped from the German Nazi camp Auschwitz. In the second half of the 1943 Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler decided to escape. During the further preparations Vrba and Wetzler received civilian garments from prisoners employed in the warehouse for clothes of the murdered Jews, while one of the Polish prisoners provided them with information about the escape route. To escape, they used a hiding place (a so-called bunker) made by prisoners employed in levelling the area: Mordka Cytryn (see escape from 29 February and 2 March 1944) and Abram (surname unknown). They, in turn, offered a joint escape to three other prisoners, Getzl Abramowicz, Kuba Balaban and Mendel Eisenbach (see escape from 29 February and 2 March 1944). The latter, in turn, showed the bunker to Vrba, asking for help while the fugitives stayed in hiding for three days. On 7 April 1944 they both hid in the previously pr