Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The trouble with unimaginable horror is precisely that: It cannot be imagined. For Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba, two Slovakian ...

The movie obscures its heroes’ efforts to convince people of Auschwitz, but does make time for extended, explicit depictions of Auschwitz itself. (JTA) — Were it not for Rudolph Vrba and Alfréd Wexler ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It sometimes feel as if the Holocaust and Nazi Germany are subjects that have been exhausted on screen, but filmmakers continue to ...

In early 1944, two Slovakian Jews made good on their escape from Auschwitz, determined to reach the outside world and report on the mass extermination inside the death camp. The camp commander had ...

The Auschwitz Report, Slovakia’s contender for the International Feature Oscar, tells the true story of two Slovakian Jews who escape Auschwitz in a bid to tell the world about the Nazi atrocities ...

Read "Making Sense of Primo Levi's Auschwitz Report," Part I" of this series here. In addition, one of Levi’s biographers, Carol Angier, also criticized Gordon. Angier describes how Gordon claims ...

On April 7, 1944, Alfred Wetzler accomplished something inconceivable – along with his younger fellow prisoner Vrba, he escaped from the highly guarded camp of death Auschwitz. Following an exhausting ...

Throughout the 1990’s I taught Western Civilization at Cooper Union in NYC. Every semester we read Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz (If This Is a Man). No doubt it is a masterpiece, not only as a ...

(JTA) Were it not for Rudolph Vrba and Alfréd Wexler, would the world today know the true extent of the mass murder the Nazis inflicted during the Holocaust? The two men, both Slovak Jews who escaped ...