Alfred wetzler biography

Alfréd Israel Wetzler (10 May 1918– 8 February 1988), who later wrote under the alias Jozef Lánik, was a Slovak Jew, and one of a very small number of Jews known to have escaped from the Auschwitz death camp during the Holocaust.

Wetzler was born on 10 May 1918, in the Slovak town of Trnava where he was a worker in the period 1936-1940. Wetzler is known for the report that he and his fellow escapee, Rudolf Vrba, compiled about the inner workings of the Auschwitz camp - a ground plan of the camp, construction details of the gas chambers, crematoriums and, most convincingly, a label from a canister of Zyklon gas.

Born in the Slovakian town of Trnava on May, 10, , Alfréd Wetzler was mostly raised in the backyard of a synagogue with three brothers.

Alfréd Israel Wetzler, who wrote under the alias Jozef Lánik, was a Slovak Jewish writer.

Background.

From Auschwitz: Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler.

Wetzler, who was twenty-six, had been an actual witness of the destruction of the Theresienstadt family camp.

The 32-page Vrba-Wetzler report, as it became known, was the first detailed report about Auschwitz to reach the West that the Allies regarded as credible. The evidence eventually led to the bombing of several government buildings in Hungary, killing Nazi officials who were instrumental in the railway deportations of Jews to Auschwitz.

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