HOLOCAUST HERO: The Life & Times of Rudolf Vrba

After he escaped Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Vrba and Alfred Wetzler co-authored the Vrba-Wetzler Report, a document credited with saving the lives of 200,000 Hungarian Jews. "No other single act in the Second World War," according to Sir Martin Gilbert, "saved so many Jews from the fate that Hitler and the SS had determined for them." Illus.