“After he escaped from Auschwitz Birkenau in 1944, Vrba and Alfred Wetzler co-authored the Vrba Wetzler report, a document credited with saving the lives of 200,000 Hungarian Jews. No other single act in the Second World War saved so many Jews from the fate that Hitler had determined for them.” — Sir Martin Gilbert.
“At long last a worthy biography of one of the most fascinating and important figures in Holocaust history, Rudi Vrba. Alan Twigg not only pulls together many new sources to illuminate Vrba’s life before and after his escape from Auschwitz Birkenau. He also guides the reader through the thicket of fictional and semi-fictional accounts of Vrba’s remarkable escape that have obscured the historical truth until now.” — Christopher R. Browning, historian
A Holocaust Hero book launch presentation by Alan Twigg at Vancouver’s Jewish Community Centre, September, 2025. It commences with a recollection that Elie Wiesel was afraid to look Rudolf Vrba in the face…
A presentation (in two parts) about the Rudolf Vrba biography, Holocaust Hero, Vol. One, at Temple Shalom synagogue, 14/01/26.
Theo Dombrowski reviews Holocaust Hero: The Life and Times of Rudolf Vrba
The British Columbia Review interview by Trevor Marc Hughes
