Rudolf Vrba
Biochemist
Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He escaped from the camp in April 1944, at the height of the Holocaust, and co-wrote the... Wikipedia
Born: September 11, 1924, Topoľčany, Slovakia
Died: March 27, 2006 (age 81 years), Vancouver, Canada
Parents: Helena Rosenberg and Elias Rosenberg
Children: Helena Vrbová
Spouse: Robin Vrba (m. 1975–2006) and Gerta Vrbová (m. 1949–1956)
Education: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1956), Czech Technical University in Prague (1951), and Czech Technical University in Prague (1949)
Known for: Vrba–Wetzler report