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Collection Overview

Title: Rudolf Vrba Papers, 1934-2008Add to your cart.

Primary Creator: Vrba, Rudolf

Extent: 46.03 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: The papers are arranged into sevem series, as follows: Holocaust, Academic, Personal, Photographs, Audiovisual Materials, Memorabilia and Printed Materials, Foreign Language Materials. Most foreign language materials are grouped together in a series, but a small amount remains foldered along with clearly related materials according to original order of the documents as received by the Library.

Abstract

This collection details the personal, professional, scholarly, and humanitarian life of Auschwitz escapee and co-author of the Vrba-Wetzler Report, Rudolf Vrba. Dr. Vrba is credited with being among the first witnesses to report the nature, methods, and scale of mass extermination performed by the Nazis. The Papers largely pertain to Dr. Vrba’s life and work following his emigration from Eastern Europe, including his biochemistry and pharmacology research career and efforts in support of Holocaust remembrance.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Rudolf Vrba Papers primarily reflect Vrba’s personal and academic life after emigrating from Eastern Europe. The papers include documentation of his role and interest in Holocaust remembrance, his published autobiography, and various lectures and public appearances. There is also a great deal of material unrelated to Holocaust legacy, including family correspondence, family photographs, professional activities, and other general material useful for biographical study. Most contents date between 1980 and 2006, with very little pre-dating the 1960s.

The majority of this collection takes the form of correspondence and printed materials, though photographs, memorabilia, audio-visual materials. The collection also contains numerous items in languages other than English including: German, French, Russian, Hebrew, Czech, Hungarian and others.

Collection Historical Note

Rudolf Vrba was born Walter Rosenberg in Topolčany, Czechoslovakia in 1924. After his escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau in April 1944, the Slovakian Jewish underground provided him with new identity papers, with the name “Rudolf Vrba.”  This new identity was in order to protect him and his family against future arrest. He legalized the name immediately after the war.

At the age of 15, Vrba was excluded from gymnasium (secondary school) in Bratislava under Slovakia’s version of the Nuremberg Laws, known as the Jewish Code. In 1942, he was arrested and deported first to the concentration camp Majdanek and later to Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II (Birkenau). While at Auschwitz, Vrba was given prisoner identification number “44070.” Vrba first worked at the Aufraumungskommando. His job included meeting the newly arrived deportees at the railroad ramp, collecting their property and sorting it in huge storage areas.  These storage areas were ironically named Kanada (the land of plenty). From this position, Vrba was able to observe the trainloads of people, their country of origin, the dates of their arrival and the number of people in each transport.

Later Vrba was appointed registrar in the quarantine camp for men, in section B-II-a, a position where his opportunity to collect information improved. Those who were selected for slave-labor were first brought to the quarantine camp.  As registrar Vrba was able to collect additional information and he was thus able to double-check his previous estimates.

On the 7th of April 1944, Vrba and another Slovak Jew, Alfred Wetzler, escaped from Auschwitz. They decided to go to Slovakia since there they had the best chance to go unnoticed because they were native Slovak speakers, were familiar with the local customs and hoped to utilize their contacts. Immediately after their arrival, they contacted the remnants of the Jewish community and informed them about the terrible realities of Auschwitz. Together they produced a detailed report, which came to be known as the “Vrba-Wetzler Report.” This account is credited with being among the first authoritative and detailed reports which informed the U.S. War Refugee Board, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Pope Pius XII about the methods, scale, and human cost of the Holocaust. It was endorsed by the US Government as true, and later used as evidence at the Nuremburg Trials.

Following dissemination of the Vrba-Wetzler Report, Vrba participated in the Slovak National Uprising and served in the partisan unit of Captain Milan Uher, where he stayed until the end of the war. For his heroic actions, he was awarded the Czechoslovak Medal for Bravery, Order of Slovak National Insurrection (Class 2) and the Medal of Honor of Czechoslovak Partisans. In 1945, Vrba moved to Prague where he earned a doctorate in biochemistry fromPrague Technical University and began working as a neurochemist. In 1958, he moved to Israel and worked at Weitzman Institute in Rehovot. In 1960 Vrba moved to London and became a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1966. In 1967 Vrba relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia and became a Canadian citizen in 1973. From 1973 - 1975, Dr Vrba worked at Harvard Medical School with a grant from the Medical Research Council of Canada. From 1976 until his retirement in 1990, Dr. Vrba served as a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of British Columbia. He wrote and lectured prolifically, retiring as a leader in the field of biochemistry and pharmacology.

Dr. Rudolf Vrba remained active in his defiance of Nazism until his death in 2006. He authored in 1963, with Alan Bestic, memoirs entitled I Cannot Forgive, later re-titled I Escaped from Auschwitz and 44070: The Conspiracy of the Twentieth Century.

This autobiography has since been published in numerous languages in over fifteen editions. Vrba regularly lectured at Holocaust conferences and events, and made himself available for interviews; additionally he contributed to several film documentaries and had several publications in historical journals. Finally, Vrba acted as a prosecution witness against Nazi criminals and Holocaust deniers in several court cases.

Dr. Rudolf Vrba passed away in 2006 at the age of 81.

Administrative Information

Repository: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

Access Restrictions:

This collection contains some material of a personal nature which is closed to researchers at this time.

This collection contains an unprocessed series of foreign language material that is closed to researchers until such time as the contents can be processed and released.

Use Restrictions: This collection contains some material which is under copyright by various parties, and may not be used without permission of the copyright holder.

Related Materials:

Within the Records of the War Refugee Board are English language translations of the documents known collectively as the Auschwitz Protocols:

War Refugee Board press release of November 26, 1944

The Extermination Camps of Auschwitz (Oswiecim) and Birkenau in Upper Silesia [The Vrba - Wetzler Report]

Death Camp at Oswiecim

Transport - The Polish Major's Report

Additional archival material related to the Holocaust can be found in several other collections held by the FDR Library, including the Records of the War Refugee Board, FDR’s Papers as President, the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, the Henry Morgenthau Jr. Papers, and several others. A curated subject collection called the Selected Documents Related to the Holocaust and Refugees draws on documents housed across these collections at the FDR Library, and is available for research both online and in the Library’s research room.

Processing Information: The collection was donated to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York by Robin Vrba in 2010. Archivist Sarah Malcolm, Field Study Intern William Villano, Archives Specialist William Baehr, Archives Volunteer Linda Mattis, and Visiting Scholar Nikola Zimring arranged and described the materials. Some duplicate materials, empty envelopes, and corrosive fasteners or containers were routinely disposed of during processing.

Box and Folder Listing


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[Series 1: Holocaust],
[Series 2: Academic],
[Series 3: Personal],
[Series 4: Photographs],
[Series 5: Audiovisual Materials],
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[Series 7: Foreign Language Materials],
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Series 1: HolocaustAdd to your cart.
This series includes materials relating directly to the Holocaust and associated events, such as trials of former Nazi war criminals. Some items throughout the series are in languages other than English and every effort was made to maintain original order. The majority of materials in the Holocaust series were either authored solely by Dr. Vrba or received substantial contributions from him. There are four sub series within the Holocaust series, arranged as follows: Correspondence; Lectures, Publications, and Events; Legal Case Materials; and Research Materials.

Sub-Series 1: CorrespondenceAdd to your cart.
The Correspondence subseries is arranged alphabetically by correspondent and contains letters and printed emails from personal friends, journalists, academics, members of the general public, Holocaust-related organizations that focus on remembrance and survivors.

Box 1Add to your cart.

Adler, Peter, 1986-1989Add to your cart.

Allen, Michael, 2004Add to your cart.

Barnea, Aryeh (LAPID), 1993Add to your cart.

Barok, Daniel, 2005Add to your cart.

Baron, Frank, 1993, 2001Add to your cart.

BBC, 1981-1982, 1994, 2002-2004Add to your cart.

Benz, Wolfgang, 1997Add to your cart.

Ben-Ami Yehoshua, 1998Add to your cart.

Boettcher, Susan R., 2004Add to your cart.

Bonnyman, Jim, 2006Add to your cart.

Bowman, Stephen, 1993, 2000Add to your cart.

Braham, Radolph L., 1982, 1994Add to your cart.

Breindel, Eric, 1974Add to your cart.

Brother Andr, 1994Add to your cart.

Campion, Joan, 1977-1979Add to your cart.

Carter, President James E., 1977Add to your cart.

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2002Add to your cart.

Cherry, Gordon, 1985Add to your cart.

Ciechanover, Aaron, 1998Add to your cart.

Claims Conference, 2007Add to your cart.

Cochrane, Don, 2003-2004Add to your cart.

Cohen, Ed, 1990Add to your cart.

Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, 2001-2004Add to your cart.

Conway, John S., 1976Add to your cart.

Correspondence of John S. Conway (1 of 2), 1976-1978, 1981-1987Add to your cart.

Correspondence of John S. Conway (2 of 2), 1985, 1994Add to your cart.

Countess, Dr. Robert, 1993Add to your cart.

The Daily Telegraph (Alan Bestic), 1982Add to your cart.

Davis, Ruth, 1985, 1991, 2003-2004Add to your cart.

DeBruler, Roberta, 2005Add to your cart.

Deyrmenjian, Artin; United Armenian Committee of British Columbia, 2001Add to your cart.

Dickman, Steven, 1993Add to your cart.

Dittmann, Laurent, 2002Add to your cart.

Dodek, Arthur, 2005Add to your cart.

Box 2Add to your cart.

Dohm, Patrick D., 1998-1999Add to your cart.

Downie, Nick and John Man, 1982-1986Add to your cart.

Dragan, Myroslaw, 1993Add to your cart.

Druker, Geoffrey, 1999, 2005-2006Add to your cart.

Du Pre, John, 1986Add to your cart.

Empty Envelopes, 1989, undatedAdd to your cart.

Erdheim, Stuart, 1998-1999Add to your cart.

Fabian, Fifi, 2005Add to your cart.

FabreAdd to your cart.

Federick, Gary (Gerry Frederics), 2001Add to your cart.

Felstiner, Mary, 1997Add to your cart.

Filletti, Connie, 1989-1990Add to your cart.

Foregger, Richard, 1987Add to your cart.

Forrest, Mark and Mark Cousins, 1992-1993Add to your cart.

Foster, Mark B., 2004Add to your cart.

Franova, Ludmila, 2002-2003Add to your cart.

Freier, Ilene D.; Gail Herring Stranger and Pamela J. Wiedner, 1999Add to your cart.

Fritz Bauer Institut, 1963-1964, 1993, 2002-2004Add to your cart.

Fujinaka, Mariko, 2001Add to your cart.

Galione-Nahas, Mary, 2001Add to your cart.

Gaull, Gerald E., 1995Add to your cart.

German Correspondence, 1999, 2005, undatedAdd to your cart.

Germain, Joan Cecelia, 2003Add to your cart.

Gilbert, Martin (1 of 3), 1980-1981, 2000-2001Add to your cart.

Gilbert, Martin (2 of 3), 1942-1945, 1980Add to your cart.

Gilbert, Martin (3 of 3), 1942-1944, 1974-1976, 1980-1990Add to your cart.

Goldhaber, Alfred Scharff, 2006Add to your cart.

Goldhagan, Erich, 1977-1978, 1996-1997Add to your cart.

Goldin, Milton, 1989Add to your cart.

Gong, Catherine, 1997Add to your cart.

Halivini, Tzipora Hager, 1979-1980Add to your cart.

Box 3Add to your cart.

Hancock, Ian F., 1986-1988Add to your cart.

Hanyok, Robert J., 2005Add to your cart.

Haynes, Charles, 1988-1989Add to your cart.

Haynes, Charles (Postcards)Add to your cart.

Heming, Gerald, 1982Add to your cart.

Herman, Pini, 2006Add to your cart.

Hilberg, Raul, 1989Add to your cart.

Hirt-Manheimer, Aron, 1985Add to your cart.

Hodges, Robert H., 1987-1988Add to your cart.

Honey, Michael, 1998Add to your cart.

Honeywell, Joan, 1982Add to your cart.

Imperial War Museum, 1996-2000Add to your cart.

Inbar, Yehudit, 2005Add to your cart.

Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Vancouver, 1999Add to your cart.

Johnson, Simon, 2000Add to your cart.

Jordan, Fred, 1987Add to your cart.

Kamrani, Fariborz, 2005Add to your cart.

Karsui, Helen, 1995, 1999Add to your cart.

Kerenyi, Norbert, 2006Add to your cart.

Kinstler, Everett Raymond, 1989Add to your cart.

Klein, George (1 of 2), 1987-1992, 1999Add to your cart.

Klein, George (2 of 2), 1977, 1985-1988, 2001Add to your cart.

Kleiner, Dr. Julius, 2005Add to your cart.

Kluszczynski, M. Yves, 1992Add to your cart.

Knellessen, Dagi; Fritz Bauer Institut, 1963, 2002-2004Add to your cart.

Kouri, Isabel, 1985Add to your cart.

Kowalski, Isaac, 1984-1985, undatedAdd to your cart.

Kraus, Alexander and Miroslav Kerner, 1985-1988Add to your cart.

Kraus, Frantisek, 2001Add to your cart.

Krause, Dr. Hans-Joachim, 1995Add to your cart.

Krell, Robert, 1979-1983, 1987-1989Add to your cart.

Box 4Add to your cart.

Kulka, Erich, 1962, 1984-1985Add to your cart.

Kuetko, Martin, 1988Add to your cart.

Langbein, Hermann, 1977, 1986-1989, undatedAdd to your cart.

Lanzman, Claude, 1978, 1985-1987Add to your cart.

Lennard, Jack, 1985Add to your cart.

Leon, Robert, 1978Add to your cart.

Letters to Rudi (Czech/Slovak), 2002-2006Add to your cart.

Lichtenstein, Heiner, 1984, 1988Add to your cart.

Linn, Ruth (1 of 2), 1998-1999, 2004-2005Add to your cart.

Linn, Ruth (2 of 2), 2004-2005Add to your cart.

Littman, Sol, 1985Add to your cart.

Louk, Jacquelyn, 2006Add to your cart.

Manvell, Roger, 1967Add to your cart.

Masel, Rachel, 1986Add to your cart.

Mazal, Harry W., 1997Add to your cart.

Metzger, FredAdd to your cart.

Michel, Ernest W. (United Jewish Appeal), 1985-1986Add to your cart.

Milarova, Eva M., 1999Add to your cart.

Montren, James, 2005Add to your cart.

Morris, Miriam Friedman, 1941, 1973, 1982, 1987Add to your cart.

M, 1987-1998Add to your cart.

M, 1986-1990, 1996-1999Add to your cart.

M, 1984- 1988, 1999Add to your cart.

Box 5Add to your cart.

Nahas, Anthony Edwin, 1993-1994Add to your cart.

Nature, 1988-1991Add to your cart.

Obec Lubina (Hraborska, Olga), 2005Add to your cart.

O'Neill, Megan, 1985-1986Add to your cart.

Ostrovsky, Milan, 1998, 2004Add to your cart.

Ovadiah, Janice E., 2002-2003Add to your cart.

Pallai, Anna, 2005Add to your cart.

Parnes, Shmulik, 2005Add to your cart.

Pearce, Bill, 2002-2006, undatedAdd to your cart.

Petras, Michael, 1994Add to your cart.

Plocki, Jenny, 1963-1964, 1985-1989Add to your cart.

Pollack, Martin, 2004Add to your cart.

Praha, 1993Add to your cart.

Radio Times (Hitchcock, Veronica; George Watson), 1982Add to your cart.

Rieman, Rob, circa 2004Add to your cart.

Roeder, Ulrich and Hans-H. Mohrmann-Walter, 1990Add to your cart.

Rose, Kassie, 1989-1991Add to your cart.

Rosenberg, Walter (Recompensation Papers), 1942-1945, 1998Add to your cart.

Rubenstein, Bill, 1998Add to your cart.

Russin, Joseph M., 1996Add to your cart.

Samuelson, Maurice, 1985-1989Add to your cart.

Seidelman, William, 1988Add to your cart.

Seidler-Feller, Rabbi Chaim, 1987Add to your cart.

Sheinin, Dr. Rose, 1985-1988Add to your cart.

Sherwood-Sobolweski, Sigmund, 1934-1937, 1970, 1986-1992Add to your cart.

SmAdd to your cart.

Smith, Steven and Benjamin Meed, 1998Add to your cart.

Smok, Martin, 1998-1999Add to your cart.

Smolen, Kazimierz and Jerzy Wroblewski; Directors of: Panstwove Museum Oswicim Brzezinka State Museum of Auschwitz Birkenau, 1989-1994Add to your cart.

Steinberg, Lucien, 1996-1997Add to your cart.

Stewart, JamesAdd to your cart.

Sud, D.B., 1999Add to your cart.

Susoeff, Elaine, 1989-1991Add to your cart.

Swartz, Richard, 2001-2002Add to your cart.

Swiebocka, Henryk, 1996-2004Add to your cart.

Swiss Claim, 1999-2000Add to your cart.

Box 6Add to your cart.

Tafler, Sid, 1998-1999Add to your cart.

Tiefenbrum, Eran (Yedioth Ahronoth), 1998Add to your cart.

Time Magazine, 1985Add to your cart.

Unidentified, 1964, 1991, 1998-2003, undatedAdd to your cart.

United Restitution Organization, 1989, 1993Add to your cart.

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1997-2004Add to your cart.

Valenta, Dr. Jaroslav, 1993Add to your cart.

The Vancouver Province, 1982Add to your cart.

Vancouver Voter RegistrationAdd to your cart.

Van den Bussche, R., 1989Add to your cart.

Vermeulen, Kathleen, 1985Add to your cart.

Vertes, Agnes M., 1999Add to your cart.

VfZeitgeschichte, 1995-1996Add to your cart.

Vizinczey, Stephen, 1997, undatedAdd to your cart.

Wall Street Journal (John Conway), 1995Add to your cart.

Warner, AlexanderAdd to your cart.

Wayne State University Press, 1998Add to your cart.

Wellers, Georges, 1989Add to your cart.

Wiesel, Elie, 1996-1999Add to your cart.

Wistril, Robert, 1988Add to your cart.

Wohlgelernter, Elli, 1998Add to your cart.

Wyman, David, 1976-1977, 1996Add to your cart.

Yad Vashem, 1987-1991, 2005Add to your cart.

Yoder, Don A., 1967Add to your cart.

Zarrow, Aaron, 1997Add to your cart.

Zeitlin, Froma I., 1996Add to your cart.

Sub-Series 2: Lectures, Publications, and EventsAdd to your cart.
The Lectures, Publications, and Events subseries includes writings produced by Dr. Vrba and materials related to publications, documentaries, and events to which Dr. Vrba made a substantial contribution. The majority of Dr. Vrba’s lectures and appearances are associated with specific Holocaust remembrances or scholarly conferences. Researchers can expected to find formal invitations, correspondence, travel arrangements, promotional flyers, programs, copies of lectures, and photos from various events.

Box 6Add to your cart.

"44070- The Conspiracy of the Twentieth Century." Correspondence between reviewers and Star and Cross Publishing House, 1989, undatedAdd to your cart.

"44070-The Conspiracy of the Twentieth Century." Reviews and Supplements, 1989, 1994, undatedAdd to your cart.

Auschwitz  and the Allies; BBC, Radio Times, 1982Add to your cart.

Auschwitz and the Allies (Book), 1980Add to your cart.

Berlin Programme: "The Role of the Holocaust in German Economic and Military Strategy During 1941-1945", 1997Add to your cart.

Berlin Technical University, 1996-1997Add to your cart.

Blue Mountain Community College. Holocaust Memorial Lecture: "Witness to Auschwitz" and "Money and the Holocaust", 1992-1994Add to your cart.

Boston College Law School. The Holocaust/Human Rights Research Project, 1988Add to your cart.

Box 7Add to your cart.

Book World, 2001Add to your cart.

Canadian Broadcast Company Untitled, 1985, undatedAdd to your cart.

CBC. Man Alive Series. "Witness to Auschwitz", 1996-1999Add to your cart.

Colloque International. Totalitarismes, Crimes et G, 1966-1967, 1985-1989, 1998-1999Add to your cart.

Congregation Emanu-El Yom Ha Shoah Commemoration, 1939-1945, 1949, 1997, undatedAdd to your cart.

"Die Bedeutung des Holocaust f, 1941, 2001, undatedAdd to your cart.

Die Missachtete Warung Betrachtungen, 1994-1996Add to your cart.

"Escape from Auschwitz" Correspondence with Foreign Publishers, 1985-1986Add to your cart.

"The Extermination Camps of Auschwitz (Oswiecim) and Birkenau in Upper Silesia" and "The Polish Majors Report" collectively known as "The Auschwitz Protocols", 1944, 1979Add to your cart.

"Footnote to the Auschwitz Report" Draft 3., 1991Add to your cart.

Hamburg Institut fur Sozialforschung, 1997-1998Add to your cart.

History of the Second World War. Volume 5, Number 13. "The Camps, An Inside View" interview with Roger Manwell, 1968Add to your cart.

Holocaust Center of Northern California Yom Hashoah, 1997-1998Add to your cart.

Holocaust Memorial Center. Fifth Anniversary Dinner, 1989Add to your cart.

"I Cannot Forgive" Correspondence and Supplements, 1963-1964, 1985-1986, 1998-2005Add to your cart.

"I Cannot Forgive" Correspondence with Alison Leslie Gold of Scholastic Publishing, 1999Add to your cart.

"I Cannot Forgive" General File, 1963, 1988-1989, 1996Add to your cart.

"I Escaped from Auschwitz" Supplements and Correspondence, 1967, 1986, 1993-1998, 2002Add to your cart.

Box 8Add to your cart.

Indianopolis Jewish Community Relations Council Holocaust Memorial Service, 1990Add to your cart.

International Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust in Hungary. "The Preparations for the Holocaust in Hungary: An Eyewitness Account." The Holocaust in Hungary Fifty Years Later, 1949, 1991-1997, undatedAdd to your cart.

Jewish Currents. Volume 20 Number 3. "Footnote to the Auschwitz Report.", 1944-1945, 1966Add to your cart.

Jewish Federation of Edmonton. "The Role of the Holocaust in German Economic and Military Strategy 1941-1945" Kristallnacht the 50th Anniversary (1 of 2), 1986-1988Add to your cart.

Jewish Federation of Edmonton. "The Role of the Holocaust in German Economic and Military Strategy 1941-1945" Kristallnacht the 50th Anniversary (2 of 2), 1988Add to your cart.

Misc./General, 1977, 1990, 1997, 2002, 2004Add to your cart.

Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center: "The Role of the Regular German Army in the Holocaust", 1986Add to your cart.

Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center: Holocaust Education Series, 2005Add to your cart.

Nature. Volume 350. Issue 6320. Letter to the Editor., 1991Add to your cart.

Nassau Community College. The 29th Annual Scholars Conference on The Holocaust and the Churches. The Burdens of History: Posst-Holocaust Generations in Dialogue., 1999Add to your cart.

"Nazi Genetics as Law: The Ideological Backbone of the Holocaust." St. Mary's Church., 2001Add to your cart.

Nazi Racial Policy In Its Relation to Military Stategy: The Final Phase, 1966Add to your cart.

"On the Genesis of the Vrba-Wetzler Report", 1975-1976, 1994Add to your cart.

"The Nazi's War, the Money and the Jews. The Role of the Holocaust in German Economic and Military Strategy during 1941-1945"Add to your cart.

"On the 'Leuchter Report' and the Gas Chambers in Auschwitz" by Georges Wellers. Translated by Rudolph Vrba., 1988-1989Add to your cart.

One World Human Rights Festival. Prauge, Czech Republic., 2000-2003Add to your cart.

Pa?stwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkeneau w. O?wi?cimiu, 2004Add to your cart.

Box 9Add to your cart.

"Personal Memories of S.S. Doctors of Medicine in Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II (Birkenau)", 1989-1992, undatedAdd to your cart.

"Preparation for the Holocaust in Hungary: An Eyewitness Account" (in Hebrew) (1 of 2), 1993-1995Add to your cart.

"Preparation for the Holocaust in Hungary: An Eyewitness Account" (in Hebrew) (2 of 2), 1984, 1993-1994Add to your cart.

Radio- France Interview, 1987Add to your cart.

"The Role of the German Medical Profession in Auschwitz: An Eyewitness Account" (1 of 2)Add to your cart.

"The Role of the German Medical Profession in Auschwitz: An Eyewitness Account" (2 of 2), 1942, 1997, undatedAdd to your cart.

"The Role of the Holocaust in German Economy and Military Strategy During 1941-1945"Add to your cart.

"The Role of the Holocaust in German Military Strategy: An Eyewitness Account"Add to your cart.

Rotary Club of Chilliwack, 1991Add to your cart.

Shelter Rock Jewish Center, 1997Add to your cart.

Sniegon, Tomas. Odpustit Nemoze a Zabudnut Nechce, 2000, undatedAdd to your cart.

Stanford University. "Resisting Evil: A Personal Account." Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquia Series, 1996-1997Add to your cart.

State University of New York at Albany. Select Seminar on the Holocaust., 1986-1989, undatedAdd to your cart.

T, 2002Add to your cart.

University of Alberta. "The Role of the Holocaust in German Military Strategy" and "The Role of the German Medical Profession in Auschwitz", 2002-2004Add to your cart.

Box 10Add to your cart.

University of Cincinnati. "Money and the Holocaust." National Day of Rememberance of the Holocaust., 1993Add to your cart.

University of Haifa. Honorary Degree Ceremony, 1998-1999Add to your cart.

University of Haifa. War, Morality and Deception- The Germans and the Jews, 1998Add to your cart.

University of Kansas. "War, Morality, and Deception: An Auschwitz Perspective", 1966, 1998-2001Add to your cart.

Untitled. (Robin's title: "Hubert Pfocal I think with comments by Rudi")Add to your cart.

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. What Was Known in Hungary about the Holocaust? "Prepartions for the Holocaust in Hungary revealed but not Heralded", 1993-1994Add to your cart.

U.S. Holocaust Research Institute. "Preparations for the Holocaust in Hungary Revealed but no Heralded." Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Deportation of Hungarian Jewery., 1994Add to your cart.

Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society and State of Israel Bonds., 1999Add to your cart.

Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. 25th Annual High School Symposium on the Holocaust. "Nazi Genetics as Law: The Ideological Background of the Holocaust", 2000Add to your cart.

Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. "The Role of the Holocaust in German Economic and Military Strategy During 1941-1945.", 1996-1997Add to your cart.

Vancouver Sun, 2001, undatedAdd to your cart.

Vrba: A Documentary Film, 1966, 1992-1994Add to your cart.

"War, Morality, and Deception-the Germans and the Jews (1939-1945)", 1998Add to your cart.

Whitman College. "Money and the Holocaust: The Economies of Genocide" and "Personal Memories of S.S. Doctors at Auschwitz", 1985, 1993-1994Add to your cart.

Winnipeg Jewish Community Council. Yom Hashoah and Information Radio., 1993Add to your cart.

Zentrale, 2005-2006Add to your cart.

Sub-Series 3: Legal Case MaterialsAdd to your cart.
The files within this sub-series relate to Dr. Vrba’s role in the trials and legal cases of former Nazis and Holocaust deniers. Dr. Vrba’s role in these trials most often involved expert testimony either delivered from the stand or submitted as written statements as evidence for the prosecution. Materials include case-related correspondence and news clippings. Correspondents include other Holocaust survivors and Jewish advocacy groups, and the letters demonstrate the lengths to which Dr. Vrba went to see that former Nazi party members were prosecuted. Legal materials related to cases that never went to trial (such as potential lawsuits against Holocaust deniers) are included as well.

Box 10Add to your cart.

Butz, Arthur R. (U.S.), 1977-1979, 1984Add to your cart.

Butz, Arthur R. (U.S.) Clippings, 1964, 1974-1988Add to your cart.

Box 11Add to your cart.

Citron, Sabina (Letters), 1993-1994Add to your cart.

Graf, Otto, 1963Add to your cart.

Kaufman, S., 1964Add to your cart.

Kirschbaum, Joseph (Canada) (1 of 2), 1962-1963, 1980-1981, 1986-1989Add to your cart.

Kirschbaum, Joseph (Canada) (2 of 2), 1940, 1985, 1989Add to your cart.

Kirschbaum, Joseph (Canada) Clippings and Supplements (1 of 2), 1988-1990, 2005Add to your cart.

Kirschbaum, Joseph (Canada) Clippings and Supplements (2 of 2), 1980, 1988-1992Add to your cart.

Koenig, Ernst August (Germany), 1987-1990Add to your cart.

Kuhnemann, Heinrich (Germany), 1989-1991Add to your cart.

Lipschiz, Hans (Antanas Lipsys) U.S. Immigration Court. Chicago, IL. File A10682861, 1982-1983Add to your cart.

The Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration (Canada) v. Josef Nemsila, 1990Add to your cart.

Monus, Aron (Hungary) Decision Number 0103-3. Vh.18148/1999/5, 2005-2006Add to your cart.

Polhora-Pomffy, Mikulas (Austria) Reference Number 33 Vr 193/92, 1990-1994Add to your cart.

Zundel, Ernst (Canada), 1985-1988Add to your cart.

Zundel, Ernst (Canada) Clippings (1 of 4), 1985Add to your cart.

Zundel, Ernst (Canada) Clippings (2 of 4), 1985-1986Add to your cart.

Box 12Add to your cart.

Zundel, Ernst (Canada) Clippings (3 of 4), 1985Add to your cart.

Zundel, Ernst (Canada) Clippings (4 of 4), 1985Add to your cart.

Zundel, Ernst (Canada) Trial Transcript, 1985Add to your cart.

Sub-Series 4: Research MaterialsAdd to your cart.
The Research Materials subseries primarily consists of newspaper clippings, journal articles, and letters collected by Vrba concerning Holocaust research. The majority of the subseries is housed in fourteen general research folders. Researchers can also expect to find information on Holocaust museums within this subseries.

Box 12Add to your cart.

Ben Ami, Yehoshua Erno Weisz "Past and Present", 1992Add to your cart.

General (1 of 14), 1963, 1978, 1994-2005Add to your cart.

General (2 of 14), 1977-1981, 1985, 1991-1992, 2004-2006, undatedAdd to your cart.

General (3 of 14), 1942-1944, 1964, 1972-1973, 1979, 1985, 1989, 2005Add to your cart.

General (4 of 14), 1944, 1996-1997, 2003-2005, undatedAdd to your cart.

General (5 of 14), 1942, 1981-1982, 1990-1992, undatedAdd to your cart.

Box 13Add to your cart.

General (6 of 14), 1944, 1956, 1989, 2006, undatedAdd to your cart.

General (7 of 14), 1979-1987, 1998-2001, undatedAdd to your cart.

General (8 of 14), 1979-1985, 1991, 2000, 2005, undatedAdd to your cart.

General (9 of 14), 1978, 1982, 1985, 1991, 2000Add to your cart.

General (10 of 14), 1977, 1981, 1986-1987, 1994, 1999, undatedAdd to your cart.

General (11 of 14), 1963-1964, 1974-1981, 1985-1989Add to your cart.

Box 14Add to your cart.

General (12 of 14), 1979, 1990, 2001, 2008Add to your cart.

General (13 of 14), 1981, 1987, 2000-2002, undatedAdd to your cart.

General (14 of 14), 1966, 1996-2005Add to your cart.

Newspaper Clippings, 1977-1982, 1986-1994, 1999-2005, undatedAdd to your cart.

Halbrohr, Peter "A Statement" (1 of 2), 1990-1991Add to your cart.

Halbrohr, Peter "A Statement" (2 of 2), 1990-1991Add to your cart.

Hayes, Peter "Profits and Persectuion: German Big Business and the Holocaust", 1998Add to your cart.

Holocaust Museums (1 of 2), 2001- 2005Add to your cart.

Holocaust Museums (2 of 2), 2001-2006Add to your cart.

Series 2: AcademicAdd to your cart.
The academic papers contain correspondence with professional colleagues, paraphenelia from academic conferences, and requests to speak at said conferences. Also included are papers related to Dr. Vrba’s time at the University of British Columbia, his curriculum vitae, and his academic awards. This series also contains academic papers written by Vrba as well as other scholarly papers and journals related to his field of study. Some of these papers are printed in foreign languages. Vrba’s research files related to biochemistry are also included in this series.

Box 15Add to your cart.

Abstracts of Internal Neurochemistry Sympositum on Enzymic Activity of the Central Nervous System, 1962Add to your cart.

Acta Physiologica Polonica, 1964Add to your cart.

Adler, Peter, 2001Add to your cart.

American Journal of Physiology, 1974Add to your cart.

Application 58, 1967, 1973-1975Add to your cart.

Baylor College of Medicine, 1970-1972Add to your cart.

Benmouyal, Elie, 1973Add to your cart.

Biochemical Journal, 1962, 1966-1970, 2000Add to your cart.

Biochemical Pharmacology, 1966Add to your cart.

Biochemical Society (The), 1948, 1961-1971, undatedAdd to your cart.

Biochemist (The), 1998Add to your cart.

Business Cards and Contact Information, 1960, 1965Add to your cart.

Canadian Federation of Biological Societies, 1987-1988Add to your cart.

Canadian Journal of Biochemistry, 1971-1973, 1982Add to your cart.

Carleton, Gajdusek D., 2005Add to your cart.

Charest, David, 1997-1998Add to your cart.

Chemical Pathology of the Nervous System, 1961Add to your cart.

Collection CzechAdd to your cart.

Correspondence Related to Vrba's Appointment as Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, 1967-1983Add to your cart.

Cruelty to Animals Act, 1964Add to your cart.

Curriculum Vitae, Publication Lists, and Resum, 1993, 1997-1999, 2003Add to your cart.

Curriculum Vitae, Publication Lists, and Resum, 1960-1963, 1993, 2003Add to your cart.

Curriculum Vitae, Publication Lists, and Resum, 1967, 1993, undatedAdd to your cart.

Derek Richter: Life in Research, 1989Add to your cart.

Documents Related to Israel, 1959- 1962, 1966, undatedAdd to your cart.

Box 16Add to your cart.

Experientia, 1958Add to your cart.

Fabre, Henri, 1995-1998Add to your cart.

Fodor, J. George, 1997Add to your cart.

Foreign Language Scientific Publications (1 of 4), 1951-1956Add to your cart.

Foreign Language Scientific Publications (2 of 4), 1951-1957Add to your cart.

Foreign Language Scientific Publications (3 of 4), 1956-1957, 1971-1972, undatedAdd to your cart.

Foreign Language Scientific Publications (4 of 4), 1953-1957, 1971-1972, 1996, undatedAdd to your cart.

Goethe Institut, 1999-2000Add to your cart.

Godin, Dr. D.V., 1999Add to your cart.

Grant Application: Tumor Related Pathways of Glucose Carbon in Vivo, 1973Add to your cart.

Haley, Dr. L. Correspondence Concerning Dr. Etela Neumann, 1989Add to your cart.

Immunochemistry, 1976Add to your cart.

International Society for Neurochemistry, 1976, undatedAdd to your cart.

Journal of Endocrinology, 1967Add to your cart.

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, 1985Add to your cart.

Journal of Neurochemistry, 1955-1962Add to your cart.

Journal of Physiology, 1965Add to your cart.

Klein, George, 1985-1989Add to your cart.

Box 17Add to your cart.

Lancet (The), 1962, 1988Add to your cart.

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 1973-1976Add to your cart.

Medical Research Council, 1960-1968, 1974-1977, 1982Add to your cart.

Medical Sciences, 1975Add to your cart.

Medical Science without Compassion "Personal Memories of Actions of SS-Doctors of Medicine in Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II (Birkenau)", 1992Add to your cart.

Metabolism of the Nervous System, 1957Add to your cart.

Miscellaneous, 1965, undatedAdd to your cart.

M, 1985-1987, 1997-2001Add to your cart.

Murphy, Bruce D., 1986-1988Add to your cart.

National Health Service Regulations, 1967Add to your cart.

National Westminister Bank, 1990Add to your cart.

Nature, 1955-1958, 1962-1964Add to your cart.

New England Journal of Medicine, 1975Add to your cart.

Nineth International Congress of Biochemistry, 1973Add to your cart.

Pharmazeutisches, 1971-1972, undatedAdd to your cart.

Proc. Con. Fed. Bio. Soc., 1972Add to your cart.

Proceedings of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies, 1972Add to your cart.

Protein Metabolism of the Nervous System, 1961, 1967-1970Add to your cart.

Ren, 1983, 1990, undatedAdd to your cart.

Republic of Czechoslavakia Records, 1945-1949, 1955Add to your cart.

Requests for Papers, 1965-1967Add to your cart.

Research File (1 of 4), 1978, 1985-1994Add to your cart.

Research File (2 of 4), 1976, 1980, 1986-1989, 1993-2001Add to your cart.

Box 18Add to your cart.

Research File (3 of 4), 1985, 1991, undatedAdd to your cart.

Research File (4 of 4), 1990-1994, undatedAdd to your cart.

"Revascularization of Femorpopliteal Disease", 1995Add to your cart.

Review of Czechoslovak MedicineAdd to your cart.

Seiler, Nikolaus, 1987-1990, undatedAdd to your cart.

Sigma Xi, 1983Add to your cart.

Symposium on Interaction of Drugs and Subcellular Components in Animal Cells, 1967Add to your cart.

Thank-you Letters, 1960-1961, 1965-1967Add to your cart.

Third International Neurochemical Symposium, 1958-1961Add to your cart.

Thomason, Conrad, 1993, 2003Add to your cart.

Travel Information, 1965, 1985, undatedAdd to your cart.

Trek, 2006Add to your cart.

Tumor Papers, 1988-1989Add to your cart.

UBC Medicine, 2006Add to your cart.

University of British Columbia Administrative File (1 of 2), 1959, 1973, 1982, 1986-1989, 1997-1999, 2003-2005Add to your cart.

University of British Columbia Administrative File (2 of 2), 1967-1969, 1977, 1986-1990, 2002-2006, undatedAdd to your cart.

University of British Columbia Professors Emeriti, 1995-1998, 2002-2005Add to your cart.

University of British Columbia Publications, 1997, 2005-2006Add to your cart.

University of British Columbia Reports, 1997, 2001Add to your cart.

University Envelopes, 1976, undatedAdd to your cart.

University of Haifa, 1998Add to your cart.

University of Saskatchewan Annual Research Meeting, 1972Add to your cart.

Series 3: PersonalAdd to your cart.
This series documents personal interactions with friends, family, admirers, and legal or business organizations. Most items in this series are either personal and private discussions of family matters, or official documents including immigration and naturalization papers, other government documents, financial materials, and items related to Dr. Vrba’s health. Items relating to Vrba’s daily schedule, as well as his family and social life may also be found in this series. Many of Dr. Vrba’s personal friends were also scholars who engaged in the study of the Holocaust; the correspondents in this series often overlaps with the correspondents found in the Holocaust series, but the items in this series are primarily convened with the personal and social life of Dr. Vrba. The series also includes a large selection of newspaper clippings, biographical materials, and obituaries.

Box 19Add to your cart.

Arts Club, 1995-1998, 2002-2003Add to your cart.

Authors' Club, 1965-1967Add to your cart.

Biographies, Newspapers, and Clippings. English. (1 of 5), 1964, 1974, 1982-2005Add to your cart.

Biographies, Newspapers, and Clippings. English. (2 of 5), 1982-1985, 1989-1998, undatedAdd to your cart.

Biographies, Newspapers, and Clippings. English (3 of 5), 1983, 1988-1989, 1994-1998, 2005-2006Add to your cart.

Biographies, Newspapers, and Clippings. English (4 of 5), 2006Add to your cart.

Biographies, Newspapers, and Clippings. English (5 of 5), 2005-2008Add to your cart.

Biographies, Newspapers, and Clippings. Foreign Language., 1974, 1988-1991, 1995-2001, 2005-2006, undatedAdd to your cart.

Box 20Add to your cart.

Bomber, Gil, 2002Add to your cart.

Bryant, Gillian, 1963, 1967Add to your cart.

Canadian Immigration, 1966, 1977, undatedAdd to your cart.

Correspondence. Bachelard, Herman, 2002-2004Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Brauner, Edith, 1998Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Brunovsky, Josef, 1998Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Calderon, Lici and Sam, 1983-1985, 1988-1989, 1998Add to your cart.

Correspondence. De Rothschild, Batsheva, 1985-1986Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Drabek, Dr. Jan, 1997Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Duchovni, Ehud, 1998Add to your cart.

Correspondence. DuPr, 1996-1998, 2004, undatedAdd to your cart.

Correspondence. Fabian, Ivan, 1997Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Gal, Joan, 1997, 1998Add to your cart.

Correspondence- General (1 of 4), 1961, 1965-1967, 1977, 1982-1985, 2004-2005, undatedAdd to your cart.

Correspondence- General (2 of 4), 1962-1968, undatedAdd to your cart.

Correspondence- General (3 of 4), 1962-1968, 1982, 2006, undatedAdd to your cart.

Correspondence- General (4 of 4), 1980-1982, 1987-1990, 1994, 1999-2006, undatedAdd to your cart.

Correspondence- General, Foreign Language (1 of 2), 1986-1992, 1997, 2000-2002, 2006, NDAdd to your cart.

Correspondence- General, Foreign Language (2 of 2), 1962-1968, 1978, 1981-3, 2000, 2004-2005, undatedAdd to your cart.

Box 21Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Goddard, Theodore, 1987, 1998Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Hilton, Gerta, 1998Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Izsak, Judith, 1986Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Kamenicka, Helena, 1985-1990Add to your cart.
review

Correspondence. Lambert, Betty, 1979, undatedAdd to your cart.
maybe should be closed, very personal letters

Correspondence. McKay, PaulAdd to your cart.

Correspondence. Meadows, Stanley, 1985-1986Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Philippe Cywan, 1967-1968Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Stefancik, Milan, 1999Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Thomason, Conrad, 1997, 2003-2005Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Trestikova, Helena, 1999-2000, undatedAdd to your cart.

Correspondence. Unglik, Gilles, 2001, 2006Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Urstein, Dennis, 1998Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Venasova, Ivana, 2000Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Vogel, Eva M., 2000Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Zelena, Miluse, 1996Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Zeman, Laco, 1995-2000, 2004Add to your cart.

Correspondence. Zola, Benjamin E.Add to your cart.

Custody of Helena and Zuzana Vrbov, 1956-1968Add to your cart.
review

Documents, Canada, 1967, 1972, 2003Add to your cart.

Documents, Czechosolvak Republic, 1942-1949, 1951-1989, 1963, 1990, 1998, undatedAdd to your cart.

Documents, United Kingdom, 1948, 1966Add to your cart.

Documents, United States, 1973-1975, 1967, 2003Add to your cart.

Driving Licence (United Kingdom), 1967, undatedAdd to your cart.

F.C. Finance Limited, 1964-1967Add to your cart.

Hidden Heroes of the Holocaust. Teacher Lesson Plans by Christina MicAdd to your cart.

Last Will and Testament, 1967Add to your cart.

Lease- 13 Eaton Court, Surrey. England, 1965-1967Add to your cart.

Life Insurance, Canada. Sun Life, 1967, undatedAdd to your cart.

Box 22Add to your cart.

Life Insurance, Switzerland, 1966-1967Add to your cart.

Life Insurance, U.K., 1963Add to your cart.

Medical, 2004-2005, undatedAdd to your cart.

Miscellaneous, 1967-1968, 1992, 1998-2000, 2005, undatedAdd to your cart.

Naturalization, United Kingdom, 1962-1966Add to your cart.

The Order of Canada (1 of 2), 1990-2000, 2010Add to your cart.

The Order of Canada (2 of 2), 1990-2000, 2010Add to your cart.

Order of White Double-Cross- Slovak Republic, 2006-2008Add to your cart.

Palatinus, G.m.b.H., 1985-1988Add to your cart.

Stuart, Lyle, 2001, 2005Add to your cart.

United States Immigration, 1966, 1967Add to your cart.

Visa-Czech Republic, 1993-1995Add to your cart.

Vrba, Robin, 1987, 1999-2002, 2006Add to your cart.

Vrba, Robin. Correspondence-Passing of Rudolf Vrba (1 of 3), 2001, 2005-2008, undatedAdd to your cart.

Vrba, Robin. Correspondence-Passing of Rudolf Vrba (2 of 3), 2006-2008, undatedAdd to your cart.

Vrba, Robin. Correspondence-Passing of Rudolf Vrba (3 of 3), 2005-2006Add to your cart.

Box 23Add to your cart.

Vrbova, Helena (1 of 3), 1981-1988Add to your cart.

Vrbova, Helena (2 of 3), 1982Add to your cart.

Vrbova, Helena (3 of 3), 1990Add to your cart.

Vrbova, Zuza, 2004-2007, undatedAdd to your cart.

Wikipedia, 2006, undatedAdd to your cart.

Series 4: PhotographsAdd to your cart.
(Containers 42-49) This series contains Dr. Vrba’s photograph collection, including both personal and professional materials. The vast majority of photographs depict family social events, and nearly all individuals are unidentified. There are also a number of images depicting Holocaust rememberance locations and events. All photographs are arranged in rough chronological order. A preliminary inventory is available upon request.

Series 5: Audiovisual MaterialsAdd to your cart.
(Containers 50-51) This series contains audio and video recordings related to Dr. Vrba’s life and work. Most are recordings of Dr. Vrba’s lectures and public appearances. Materials are unarranged and available as original media only. A preliminary inventory is available upon request. Researchers wishing to access these recordings should work with an archivist to evaluate feasibility of playback and other access restrictions on a case-by-case basis.

Series 6: Memorabilia and Printed MaterialsAdd to your cart.
(Containers 52-56) This series contains framed certificates, medals, and other distinguised honors awarded to Dr. Vrba, along with miscellaneus ephemera.

Series 7: Foreign Language MaterialsAdd to your cart.
(Containers 57-59, closed for privacy concerns) This series contains material in a variety of foreign languages related to Dr. Vrba’s work, primarily concerning the Holocaust.

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