Rudolf Vrba's Courageous Auschwitz Breakout

Rudolf Vrba, a Slovak Jewish biochemist, faced deportation to Auschwitz during World War II. In 1944, he and another man planned their escape after noticing that searches for missing prisoners lasted only three days. Consequently, after fleeing, they hid in a hole outside the inner perimeter fence for three days, and on the fourth day, they successfully got away.

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