The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
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The Escape Artist
- The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
- By: Jonathan Freedland,
- Narrated by: Jonathan Freedland,
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Categories: History
Publisher’s Summary
The astonishing, forgotten story of the hero who escaped from Auschwitz to reveal the truth of the Holocaust.
In April 1944, a teenager named Rudolf Vrba was planning a daring and unprecedented escape from Auschwitz. After hiding in a pile of timber planks for three days while 3,000 SS men and their bloodhounds searched for him, Vrba and his fellow escapee Fred Wetzler would eventually cross Nazi-occupied Poland on foot, as penniless fugitives. Their mission: to tell the world the truth of the Final Solution.
Vrba would produce from memory a breathtaking report of more than thirty pages revealing the true nature and scale of Auschwitz—a report that would find its way to Roosevelt, Churchill and the Pope, eventually saving over 200,000 Jewish lives.
A thrilling history with enormous historical implications, The Escape Artist is the extraordinary story of a complex man who would seek escape again and again: first from Auschwitz, then from his past, even from his own name. In telling his story, Jonathan Freedland—the journalist, broadcaster and acclaimed, multi-million copy selling author of the Sam Bourne novels—ensures that Rudolf Vrba’s heroic mission will also escape oblivion.
©2022 Jonathan Freedland (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Kindle Customer
A very important book about the Holocaust
informative, well researched, balance reporting of what happened to the Verba Report. I am the child of Holocaust survivors, my father from Auschwitz and have grown up with stories of what happened and yet I learned so much. it also gave me tremendous insight into the post Holocaust behaviour of many survivors, my parents and their contemporaries. it really added to my understanding of this period in History and I’m so glad I read a newspaper review about it because the title alone would not have drawn me.
the fact that it was read by the author was the icing on the cake for me.
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Matthew Mast
What a journey
I knew this book would provide a great insight into a man’s escape from Auschwitz, but the surprise message of this story is mankind’s incredible capacity to do nothing in the face of evil.
2 people found this helpful