April 27, 2011

British Captive Switched into Concentration Camp

[From article]
"American and British officials first heard of Auschwitz through the Riegner telegram of August 1942, sent by a member of the World Jewish Congress in Switzerland. It was met by both nations with disbelief. In July 1943, Jan Karski, a member of the Polish underground who’d infiltrated a transit camp — a town without boundaries where Jews were held for transport — personally informed President Roosevelt of Nazi atrocities. Finally, two Slovak Jews named Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba escaped from Auschwitz in April 1944, and their detailed accounts of the grotesqueries within were broadcast to the world through the mainstream media in June of that year."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/holocaust_hero_or_hoax_fLX8ViKYfUXHGuULjzfEQP

Holocaust hero ... or hoax?
Defying doubters, a WWII soldier stands by his memoir that he snuck into Auschwitz
By MAUREEN CALLAHAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 6:06 AM, April 24, 2011
Posted: 10:24 PM, April 23, 2011

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