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Description Sketch of the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers and crematoria from the English-language version of the Vrba-Wetzler report , November 1944, first written in Slovakian and German, April 1944.
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Source German Extermination Camps—Auschwitz and Birkenau , Executive Office of the United States War Refugee Board, 16 November 1944, p. 15. The U.S. War Refugee Board was the first to published this version of the report. See Auschwitz Protocols . Also see Robert Jan van Pelt, The Case for Auschwitz , Indiana University Press, 2002, p. 150.
Author en:Rudolf Vrba (1924–2006) and en:Alfred Wetzler (1918–1988)


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