The German Extermination Camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Two Eye-Witness Reports.

Issued by the Office of the President via the War Refugee Board, Washington DC. This important document was <<the first appearance in English of the “Auschwitz Protocols.”>> The Auschwitz Protocols is a collection of eye-witness reports of mass murder and related atrocities that occurred in the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. The reports were provided by Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, two Jewish-Slovaks, who escaped Auschwitz in April 1943; and a Polish major, Jerzy Tabeau (aka Wesolowski), who escaped Auschwitz in November 1943. The Vrba-Wetzler report provided layout drawings of both Auschwitz and Birkenau, as well as of the gas chambers and crematoriums. The report also gives an account of the transports that arrived to the camp, as well as the duties of those who worked there. Jerzy Tabeau’s report (known as The Polish Major’s Report) describes his year and a half imprisonment in Auschwitz. The Auschwitz Protocols were discussed in detail by The New York Times on 26th November, 1944. They were also used as evidence during the post-war Nuremburg trials. Sadly, the publicity garnered by the Auschwitz Protocols resulted in little effect on the ground, as by the time of publication, almost all Hungarian Jewry had been deported and exterminated in Birkenau. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrba%E2%80%93Wetzler_report.