Few people know this story about the Holocaust's most successful rescuer, 17-year-old Rudolf Vrba. Historian Martin Gilbert fills in the facts as dramatizations show how the teenager escaped from Auschwitz with a companion, walked two hundred miles to Slovakia, and wrote the detailed report that allowed the BBC to reveal the operations of the death camp to the world. That revelation, coupled with timely U.S. bombing of Budapest, halted the deportation of Hungarian Jews, saving 120,000 lives. Grades 6 and up. Closed captioned. Color and black-and-white. 60 minutes. Educational Broadcasting Corporation. ©2008.
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