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The word vrba means ' willow ' in Serbo-Croatian, and a number of weeping willow trees adorn the river banks in Banja Luka. It lent its name to one of the provinces ( banovinas) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Vrbas Banovina .
- 6,274 km² (2,422 sq mi)
- Vranica
- 249.7 km (155.2 mi)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mar 13, 2015 · Robin Lipson Vrba, a Fall River native and B.M.C. Durfee High School graduate, was on hand to talk about her husband. Robin Vrba’s mother, Renee, still lives in Fall River. For decades, Renee ...
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For decades after that, Vrba wore Charles Unlick’s belt as his only memento of Auschwitz. In 1999, he donated it to London’s Imperial War Museum. When he and Alfréd Wetzler did escape on April 7, 1944, Vrba led the way beyond the camp to Slovakia, via the Sola River, a route he had gleaned from a page in a child’s atlas.
Apr 7, 2006 · Dr. Vrba's wife said his name, virtually unpronounceable in English, is generally mispronounced as VER-ba. But he made it known by telling his story, most notably in his 1963 autobiography ...
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Mar 23, 2024 · Rudolf Vrba (born September 11, 1924, Topoľčany, Czechoslovakia [now in Slovakia]—died March 27, 2006, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) Slovak Jewish biochemist, one of five Jewish prisoners to ever escape Auschwitz, the most lethal of the extermination camps in existence during World War II. Vrba’s detailed retelling of events at ...
The Virgin River is a tributary of the Colorado River in the U.S. states of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. The river is about 162 miles (261 km) long. [3] It was designated Utah's first wild and scenic river in 2009, during the centennial celebration of Zion National Park .