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Sample personal biography templates.
My interest/relationship to the Vrba Wetzler Memorial project.
Gerta Vrba’s Story
Meeting Rudi
Rudi Vrba (Walter Rosenberg) was my childhood friend in Trnava.
After having been excluded from attending school by the fascist Slovak government in 1938 we (jewish children) tried to educate ourselves.
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Rudi and I studied chemistry and mathematics together, and became close friends. In 1942 our paths separated.
Deportations of Slovak Jews started in the spring of 1942 and my parents and I managed to escape to Hungary, where the Jewish population has not yet been deported.
Rudi was deported first to Ljublin-Majdanek and then moved to Auschwitz where he managed to survive till his escape in April 1944. I met him again in Bratislava in the summer 1944.
In the spring and summer 1944 the deportation of the Hungarian Jews started and my mother and I returned to Bratislava Slovakia, where it was easier to live under false identity.
During my stay in Bratislava a friend of mine Jo