Book Launch
ALAN TWIGG – Holocaust Hero: The Life and Times of Rudolf Vrba
BOOK LAUNCH
SUN SEPT 28, 4:00pm
ALAN TWIGG – Holocaust Hero: The Life and Times of Rudolf Vrba
FREE – Please register HERE
“At long last a worthy biography of one of the most fascinating and important figures in Holocaust History — Rudi Vrba.” – Christopher R. Browning, historian
Holocaust Hero: The Life and Times of Rudolf Vrba is the first in a planned biography series that explores our own Vancouver hero’s life as an escapee, partisan, Nazi hunter, and truth-teller. Rudolf Vrba, a Slovak Jew, escaped Auschwitz in 1944 and co-authored the Vrba-Wetzler Report, which helped save over 200,000 Hungarian Jews. Twigg’s meticulously researched biography draws from interviews, new archival materials, and Vrba’s own family. The book also explores Vrba’s post-war life as a scientist, whistleblower and outspoken critic of institutional silence.
ALAN TWIGG is the founder of BC BookWorld, a veteran journalist and the author of 20 previous books. A recipient of the Order of Canada, he created rudolfvrba.com, the first major website dedicated to Vrba’s legacy.
BOOKS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND THE AUTHOR WILL BE SIGNING.