Lunch & Learn - Escaping Auschwitz: A True Story

The true story of Rudy Vrba and his planned successful escape from Auschwitz. Vrba was not the only prisoner to crack the system and risk his life to escape Auschwitz. How and why did Vrba do it? Why haven't we heard these stories?
Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle is the Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies at Pacific Lutheran University. Her most recent publication is a revised and expanded edition of Antisemitism and the Holocaust: Language, Rhetoric and Traditions of Hatred. She has also published Bishop von Galen:German Catholicism and National Socialism, she has edited a revised and expanded second edition of The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and Its Policy Consequences Today as well as editing, Trajectories of Memory, an examination of the Holocaust in History and in the Arts. She has published numerous articles, chapters in books and book reviews. Her most recent research involves examining the persecution of “Catholic non-Aryans” in Nazi Germany.

[@gonefishing167]

Good morning, from Australia here. Doesn’t it sound funny to have dinner and talks about Auschwitz at the same time. I’d feel so guilty . Looking forward to the program. Such brave, brave people. 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

[@gonefishing167]

Thank you ladies . All one can say is ‘wow’, what very brave, and selfless, men. The testimony he gave to the leading people of the Hungarian and Slovakian Jewry would have been so dreadful that any sane person would probably think the poor man was insane! It would almost too outrageous for normal people to process properly. I have heard vaguely of this brave man and I shall certainly look him up. Thank you once again.. you enjoy your summer and I certainly won’t enjoy our winter. I far prefer heat to cold. 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

[@damonmelendez856]

Can you explain about the swimming pool and the orchestra?

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Geraldton western Australia.

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[@Crystal-cs3gm]

OMG they need to make a movie about the four guys who escaped! I remember one of them had said that when they got to the last stop they had to stop at the guard stand. So one of the guys jumped out of the car and demanded for the guard to open the gate. He spoke flawlessly in German the guard did not suspect anything and rushed to open the gate