Vrba–Wetzler report
1944 · Event
The escapees' 32-page account of the Auschwitz gas chambers, written in Žilina, reaches Budapest, Switzerland, London and Washington by June.
On these timelines: The Holocaust, Master, Judaism, Major Religions, World War II
More from The Holocaust
- The Holocaust (1933)
- The mass transports reach Auschwitz (1942)
- The Einsatzgruppen killings begin (1941)
- Operation Reinhard (1942)
- The deportation of Hungary's Jews (1944)
- The Frank family is arrested (1944)
- Lemkin coins the word 'genocide' (1944)
- Vrba and Wetzler escape from Auschwitz (1944)
Around 1944
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)