Steve Sheinkin's "Impossible Escape" tells the story of Rudi Vrba and Alfred Wetzler's escape from Auschwitz. Award-winning author Steve Sheinkin read many books about the Holocaust as a teenager, but ...

Eyes wide with fear, Jewish prisoners Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler held their breath while the Auschwitz guard climbed on top of the woodpile they were hiding in. And as his dog began barking ...

Rudolf Vrba, one of five Jews who escaped Auschwitz, died March 27 in Vancouver at the age of 82. Along with fellow prisoner Alfred Wetzler, Vrba escaped Auschwitz by hiding for three days in a pile ...