Rudolf Vrba, Czech-Canadian pharmacologist and educator (died 2006)

Rudolf Vrba

Slovak-Jewish Auschwitz escapee, Canadian biochemist (1924–2006)

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 Vrba-Wetzler report, a detailed report…