The author reads his own account of the true story of two men who managed to flee Auschwitz Jonathan Freedland's The Escape Artist tells the remarkable story of Rudolf Vrba, a 19-year-old prisoner at Auschwitz who, having been sent to work in "Kanada", a store housing the luggage taken from new arrivals, began to understand the truth of their fate: they were there not to be resettled but to be murdered. Galvanised by this knowledge, he set himself a mission: to "escape and sound the alarm". Vrba...
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland audiobook review - a remarkable tale of survival
The Guardian - 15 Sep 2023 13:00
The author reads his own account of the true story of two men who managed to flee Auschwitz Jonathan Freedland's The Escape Artist tells the remarkable story of Rudolf Vrba, a 19-year-old prisoner at Auschwitz who, having been sent to work in "Kanada", a store housing the luggage taken from new arrivals, began to understand the truth of their fate: they were there not to be resettled but to be murdered. Galvanised by this knowledge, he set himself a mission: to "escape and sound the alarm". Vrba...
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