Petra Fromme
Professor
School of Molecular Sciences
“The nature of our research is to discover the structure and function of biomolecules, the building blocks of life that you find in all cells, all plants, all human beings. And we want to discover essentially many of the fundamental processes in life.”
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In April 1944, Jewish prisoners Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler miraculously escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp and fled through Nazi-occupied Poland to find refuge in Žilina, Slovakia, where they connected with the Jewish Underground. Once safe, they recounted what they left behind. Their harrowing testimony revealed the true horror of the Holocaust to the outside world, describing in forensic detail the gas chambers and the full extent of the Nazi extermination program.
