The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world

Title
  1. The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world / Jonathan Freedland.
Published by
  1. London : John Murray, 2022.
  2. ©2022
Author
  1. Freedland, Jonathan, 1967-

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Description
  1. xii, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "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
  1. Vrba, Rudolf
  2. Wetzler, Alfréd, 1918-1988
  3. Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  4. 1939-1945
  5. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  6. Nazi concentration camp escapes > Poland
  7. Nazi concentration camp inmates > Poland
  8. Nazi concentration camp escapes
  9. Nazi concentration camp inmates
  10. Poland
Contents
  1. The preparations -- The camp -- The escape -- The report -- The shadow.
Call number
  1. JFE 22-4283
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-359) and index.
Author
  1. Freedland, Jonathan, 1967- author.
Title
  1. The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world / Jonathan Freedland.
Publisher
  1. London : John Murray, 2022.
Copyright date
  1. ©2022
Type of content
  1. text
  2. still image
  3. cartographic image
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-359) and index.
Chronological term
  1. 1939-1945
Other form:
  1. ebook version : 9781529369076
ISBN
  1. 9781529369052 paperback
  2. 1529369053 paperback
  3. 9781529369045 hardback
  4. 1529369045 hardback
Research call number
  1. JFE 22-4283
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