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Dec. 12, 1964 - Escapee from Auschwitz testifies in Frankfurt trials The biochemist dr. Rudolf VRA,, born in Slovakia and now living in London, appeared before the grand jury in Frankfurt, Germany, to the testify against the accused former SS-guards of the Auschwitz extermination camp and the former Eichmann - aides Hunsc~e and Krumey, who are facing the court in a separate trial Dr. Vrba, 40, a jew with the birth name Rosenberg, Changes his name after he had managed to escape from Auschwitz in April 1944, Where he was held as prisoner facing death in the terrible gas chambers. After his hearing Dr. Vrbba told his story to a policemen and to some unidentified spectator of the trial. - ZUMAk09