Showing posts with label Slovak Jews. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

"Who were the four real heroes whose lives inspired “The Auschwitz Escape”? - Joel Rosenberg

New post on Joel C. Rosenberg's Blog

Remembering their names, and their stories.by joelcrosenberg


Two heroes who escaped.

(Washington, D.C.) -- Who were the four real heroes who
escaped from Auschwitz 70 years ago this spring, the
men whose lives inspired The Auschwitz Escape?

Today FoxNews.com has published a column I have
written giving their names and sketching out their
dramatic stories.

I hope you'll take a moment to read the whole column,
and then share it with others. Thanks so much.

REMEMBERING FOUR 

They pulled off the greatest escape in human history
– from a Nazi death camp – to tell the world the truth
about Hitler, but no one knows their names.

By Joel C. Rosenberg, for FoxNews.com

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to
risk being blindsided by it.

In 1933, the world was blindsided by the rise of
Adolf Hitler.

In 1939, it was stunned by the German invasion of
Poland and the Nazi leader’s bloodthirsty quest for
global domination. Perhaps most tragically, most of
the world did not understand Hitler’s plan to
annihilate the Jews until it was almost too late.

Today, we face dangerous new threats from Iran,
North Korea, and a rising czar in Russia, not
from Germany.

Yet curiously, in recent weeks Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor
 have each warned that as we confront current
challenges we must be careful to learn the lessons
of history regarding how the world failed to
understand the threat posed by Hitler and the
Nazis and deal with it decisively, before events
spun out of control.

I agree, and as an example, I would point the
extraordinary events that occurred in the
spring of 1944.

Four men pulled off the greatest escapes in all
of human history, from a Nazi death camp in
southern Poland. They did not simply escape
to save their own lives. Nor did they escape
merely to tell the world about a terrible crime
against humanity that had been – and was
being – committed. What set these true heroes
apart is that they planned and executed their
escapes in the hope of stopping a horrific
crime before it was committed – the extermination
of the Jews of Hungary.

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of
these escapes, and to draw attention to the
significance these unknown – or unremembered
– events, and the lessons they have to teach us,
I recently wrote a work of historical fiction,
"The Auschwitz Escape." I changed the names
of key figures involved so as not to put words
in their mouths that cannot be verified to be
their own. But it is my deepest hope that the
book will cause many to dig into the real history
of these remarkable heroes.

Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler were Slovak Jews.
They escaped from Auschwitz on April 7, 1944.

Arnost Rosin was also a Slovak Jew. Czeslaw
Mordowicz was a Polish Jew. Together they
escaped from Auschwitz on May 27, 1944.

Upon making it safely to 
Slovak Jews....

[To read the full column -- and please do -- click here.]

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