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The Auschwitz Protocol is a detailed description of the Nazi death factory written by Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, two prisoners who managed to escape from Auschwitz and flee to Slovakia. George Mandel-Mantello received a copy of the Protocol from a Romanian diplomat on the same day he learned of the deportation of his own parents. He immediately hired students to translate the report into various languages and organized a campaign to distribute the report to Swiss clergy, newspapers, and foreign diplomats.
—United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Enrico Mandel-Mantello
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