The Escape Artist: The man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world

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Hardback The Escape Artist: The man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world

Author: Freedland, Jonathan

Publication year: 2022

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Media Hardback

Classification: 940.5318

Publisher: John Murray, 2022

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: 1529369045 9781529369045

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In April 1944 nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became the first Jews ever to break out of Auschwitz. Under electrified fences and past armed watchtowers, evading thousands of SS men and slavering dogs, they trekked across marshlands, mountains and rivers to freedom. Vrba's mission: to reveal to the world the truth of the Holocaust. In the death factory of Auschwitz, Vrba had become an eyewitness to almost every chilling stage of the Nazis' process of industrialised murder. The more he saw, the more determined he became to warn the Jews of Europe what fate awaited them. A brilliant student of science and mathematics, he committed each detail to memory, risking everything to collect the first data of the Final Solution. After his escape, that information would form a priceless thirty-two-page report that would reach Roosevelt, Churchill and the pope and eventually save over 200,000 lives. But the escape from Auschwitz was not his last.