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name: "Rudolf Vrba"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rudolf-vrba"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "11 September 1924"
died: "27 March 2006"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T04:53:58.104878+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Rudolf Vrba

Actor. Born 11 September 1924 in Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia. Died 27 March 2006.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 September 1924, Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia
- **Died:** 27 March 2006
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2697966

## Biography

Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist and Auschwitz survivor who appeared as himself in documentary films. Born Walter Rosenberg on 11 September 1924 in Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia, he escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau in April 1944 and co-authored the Vrba-Wetzler report detailing mass murder at the camp.

Vrba featured in Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour documentary *Shoah* (1985), providing testimony based on his experiences. He also appeared in the television series *The World at War* (1973–1974) and *The Final Solution* (1979). After the war he worked as a scientist in England and Canada, becoming a professor at the University of British Columbia. He died on 27 March 2006 in Vancouver.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, cine.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Shoah* (1985), Fi1m 93, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/shoah.md)

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