The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world
- Title
- The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world / Jonathan Freedland.
- Published by
- London : John Murray, 2022.
- ©2022
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xii, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Contents
- The preparations -- The camp -- The escape -- The report -- The shadow.
- Call number
- JFE 22-4283
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-359) and index.
- Author
- Freedland, Jonathan, 1967- author.
- Title
- The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world / Jonathan Freedland.
- Publisher
- London : John Murray, 2022.
- Copyright date
- ©2022
- Type of content
- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-359) and index.
- Chronological term
- 1939-1945
- Other form:
- ebook version : 9781529369076
- ISBN
- 9781529369052 paperback
- 1529369053 paperback
- 9781529369045 hardback
- 1529369045 hardback
- Research call number
- JFE 22-4283