Rudolf Vrba

Rudolf Vrba
Nascimento	Walter Rosenberg 11 de setembro de 1924 Topoľčany
Morte	27 de março de 2006 (81 anos) Vancouver
Cidadania	Checoslováquia, Canadá
Cônjuge	Gerta Vrbová
Ocupação	farmacólogo, médico, professor universitário
Prêmios	Grão-Cruz da Ordem da Cruz Branca Dupla (homenagem póstuma, Ivan Gašparovič, presidente da Eslováquia, 2007) Doutor Honoris Causa da Universidade de Haifa (1998)
Empregador(a)	Universidade da Colúmbia Britânica
Causa da morte	câncer
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Rudolf Vrba, nascido Walter Rosenberg, (Topoľčany, 11 de setembro de 1924 — Vancouver, 27 de março de 2006) foi um eslovaco - bioquímico judeu que, quando adolescente em 1942, foi deportado para o campo de concentração de Auschwitz na Polônia ocupada pelos alemães.

Biografia

Bioquímico judeu que, quando adolescente em 1942, foi deportado para o campo de concentração de Auschwitz na Polônia ocupada pelos alemães. Ficou conhecido por ter fugido do campo em abril de 1944, no auge do Holocausto, e por ter co-escrito um relatório detalhado sobre o assassinato em massa que ali estava ocorrendo. Distribuição do relatório por George Mantellona é creditado por ter interrompido a deportação em massa de judeus da Hungria para Auschwitz em julho de 1944, salvando mais de 200 000 vidas. Após a guerra, Vrba treinou como bioquímico, trabalhando principalmente na Inglaterra e no Canadá.

Vrba e o fugitivo Alfréd Wetzler fugiram de Auschwitz três semanas depois que as forças alemãs invadiram a Hungria e pouco antes de as SS iniciarem as deportações em massa da população judaica da Hungria para o campo. A informação que os homens ditaram aos oficiais judeus quando chegaram à Eslováquia em 24 de abril de 1944, que incluía que os recém-chegados a Auschwitz estavam sendo gaseados e não "reassentados" como os alemães sustentavam, ficou conhecido como o relatório Vrba-Wetzler. Quando o Conselho de Refugiados de Guerra o publicou com considerável atraso em novembro de 1944, o New York Herald Tribune o descreveu como "o documento mais chocante já emitido por uma agência do governo dos Estados Unidos". Embora tenha confirmado material em relatórios anteriores de poloneses e outros fugitivos, o historiador Miroslav Kárný escreveu que era único em seus "detalhes inabaláveis".

Houve um atraso de várias semanas antes que o relatório fosse distribuído amplamente o suficiente para chamar a atenção dos governos. O transporte em massa de judeus da Hungria para Auschwitz começou em 15 de maio de 1944 a uma taxa de 12 000 pessoas por dia. A maioria foi direto para as câmaras de gás. Vrba argumentou até o fim de sua vida que os deportados poderiam ter se recusado a embarcar nos trens, ou pelo menos que seu pânico teria interrompido os transportes, se o relatório tivesse sido distribuído amplamente e mais cedo.

Do final de junho a julho de 1944, o material do relatório Vrba-Wetzler apareceu em jornais e transmissões de rádio nos Estados Unidos e na Europa, particularmente na Suíça, levando os líderes mundiais a apelar ao regente húngaro Miklós Horthy para interromper as deportações.  Em 2 de julho, forças americanas e britânicas bombardearam Budapeste, e em 6 de julho, em um esforço para exercer sua soberania, Horthy ordenou que as deportações terminassem.  Até então, mais de 434 000 judeus foram deportados em 147 trens – quase toda a população judaica do interior da Hungria – mas outros 200 000 em Budapeste foram salvos.

Obras selecionadas

Holocausto

• (1998). "Science and the Holocaust", Focus, University of Haifa (edited version of Vrba's speech when he received his honorary doctorate).
  • (1997). "The Preparations for the Holocaust In Hungary: An Eyewitness Account", in Randolph L. Braham, Attila Pok (eds.). The Holocaust in Hungary. Fifty years later. New York: Columbia University Press, 227–285.
  • (1998). "The Preparations for the Holocaust In Hungary: An Eyewitness Account", in Randolph L. Braham, Attila Pok (eds.). The Holocaust in Hungary. Fifty years later. New York: Columbia University Press, 227–285.
• (1996). "Die mißachtete Warnung. Betrachtungen über den Auschwitz-Bericht von 1944". Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 44(1), 1–24.
• (1992). "Personal Memories of Actions of SS-Doctors of Medicine in Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II (Birkenau)", in Charles G. Roland et al. (eds.). Medical Science without Compassion, Past and Present. Hamburg: Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. OCLC 34310080
• (1989). "The Role of Holocaust in German Economy and Military Strategy During 1941–1945", Appendix VII in I Escaped from Auschwitz, 431–440.
• (1966). "Footnote to the Auschwitz Report", Jewish Currents, 20(3), 27.
• (1963) com Alan Bestic. I Cannot Forgive. Londres: Sidgwick e Jackson.
  • (1964) com Alan Bestic. Factory of Death. Londres: Transworld Publishers.
  • (1989) com Alan Bestic. 44070: The Conspiracy of the Twentieth Century. Bellingham, WA: Star & Cross Publishing House.
  • (2002). I Escaped from Auschwitz. Londres: Robson Books.

Pesquisa acadêmica

• (1975) com E. Alpert; K. J. Isselbacher. "Carcinoembryonic antigen: evidence for multiple antigenic determinants and isoantigens". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 72(11), November 1975, 4602–4606. PubMed PMC 388771
• (1974) com A. Winter; L. N. Epps. "Assimilation of glucose carbon in vivo by salivary gland and tumor". American Journal of Physiology, 226(6), 1974, 1424–1427.
• (1972) com A. Winter. "Movement of (U- 14 C)glucose carbon into and subsequent release from lipids and high-molecular-weight constituents of rat brain, liver, and heart in vivo". Canadian Journal of Biochemistry, 50(1), January 1972, 91–105. PubMed
• (1970) com Wendy Cannon. "Molecular weights and metabolism of rat brain proteins". Biochemical Journal, 116(4), 1970, 745–753. PubMed PMC 1185420
• (1968) com Wendy Cannon. "Gel filtration of [U-14C]glucose-labelled high-speed supernatants of rat brains". Journal of Biochemistry, 109(3), September 1968, 30P. PubMed PMC 1186863
• (1967). "Assimilation of glucose carbon in subcellular rat brain particles in vivo and the problems of axoplasmic flow". Journal of Biochemistry, 105(3), 1967, 927–936. PubMed PMC 1198409
• (1966). "Effects of insulin-induced hypoglycaemia on the fate of glucose carbon atoms in the mouse". Journal of Biochemistry, 99(2), May 1966, 367–380. PubMed PMC 265005
• (1964). "Utilization of glucose carbon in vivo in the mouse". Nature, 202, 18 April 1964, 247–249. PubMed
• (1963) com H. S. Bachelard; J. Krawcynski. "Interrelationship between glucose utilization of brain and heart". Nature, 197, 1963, 869–870. PubMed
• (1962) com H. S. Bachelard, et al. "Effect of reserpine on the heart". The Lancet, 2(7269), 22 December 1962, 1330–1331. PubMed
• (1962) com M. K. Gaitonde; D. Richter. "The conversion of the glucose carbon into protein in the brain and other organs of the rat". Journal of Neurochemistry, 9(5), September 1962, 465–475. doi:10.1111/j.1471-4159.1962.tb04199.x PubMed
• (1962). "Glucose metabolism in rat brain in vivo". Nature, 195 (4842), August 1962, 663–665. doi:10.1038/195663a0 PubMed
• (1961) com Kunjlata Kothary. "The release of ammonia from rat brain proteins during acid hydrolysis". Journal of Neurochemistry, 8(1), October 1961, 65–71. doi:10.1111/j.1471-4159.1961.tb13527.x
• (1959) com Jaroslava Folbergrova. "Observations on endogenous metabolism in brain in vitro and in vivo". Journal of Neurochemistry 4(4), October 1959, 338–349. doi:10.1111/j.1471-4159.1959.tb13215.x
• (1958) com Jaroslava Folbergrova. "Endogenous Metabolism in Brain Cortex Slices". Nature, 182, 1958, 237–238. doi:10.1038/182237a0
• (1957) com Jaroslava Folbergrova; V. Kanturek. "Ammonia Formation in Brain Cortex Slices". Nature, 179(4557), 1957, 470–471. doi:10.1038/179470a0 PubMed
• (1956). "On the participation of ammonia in cerebral metabolism and function". Review of Czechoslovak Medicine, 3(2), 81–106. PubMed
• (1955). "Significance of glutamic acid in metabolic processes in the rat brain during physical exercise". Nature, 176(4496), 1955, 1258–1261. PubMed
• (1955). "A source of ammonia and changes of protein structure in the rat brain during physical exertion". Nature, 176(4472), 16 July 1955, 117–118. PubMed
• (1955). "Effect of physical stress on metabolic function of the brain. III. Formation of ammonia and structure of proteins in the brain". Chekhoslovatskaia Fiziologila., 4(4), 397–408 (in German). PubMed
• (1954) com Arnošt Kleinzeller; Jiři Málek. Manometrické metody a jejich použití v biologii a biochemii. Prague: Státní Zdravotnické Nakladatelství ("State Health Publishing").

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