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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Freedland, Jonathan, 1967-     Subjects     Vrba, Rudolf.     Wetzler, Alfréd, 1918-1988.     Auschwitz (Concentration camp)     Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Biography.     Nazi concentration camp escapes -- Biography.     Holocaust survivors -- Biography.     Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)     World War, 1939-1945.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Freedland, Jonathan, 1967-       by title:      The escape artist : ...       by call number:      LP 940.53185 F853e     Search the Web     Freedland, Jonathan, 1967-     Vrba, Rudolf.     Wetzler, Alfréd, 1918-1988.     Auschwitz (Concentration camp)     Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Biography.     Nazi concentration camp escapes -- Biography.     Holocaust survivors -- Biography.     Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)     World War, 1939-1945.       MARC Display

The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world / Jonathan Freedland. by Freedland, Jonathan, 1967- Thorndike Press/Cengage Company, 2022. Call #: LP 940.53185 F853e Subjects Vrba, Rudolf.   Wetzler, Alfréd, 1918-1988.   Auschwitz (Concentration camp)   Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Biography.   Nazi concentration camp escapes -- Biography.   Holocaust survivors -- Biography.   Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)   World War, 1939-1945. ISBN:  9798885787048 (large print hc.) Edition:  Large print ed. Description:  673 p. (large print) ill., maps ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz -- one of only four who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world -- and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them at the end of the railway line. Against all odds, he and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the first full account of Auschwitz the world had ever seen -- a forensically detailed report that would eventually reach Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and the Pope. And yet too few heeded the warning that Vrba -- then just nineteen years old -- had risked everything to deliver. Some could not believe it. Others thought it easier to keep quiet. Vrba helped save 200,000 Jewish lives--but he never stopped believing it could have been so many more. This is the story of a brilliant yet troubled man--a gifted "escape artist" who even as a teenager understood that the difference between truth and lies can be the difference between life and death, a man who deserves to take his place alongside Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler and Primo Levi as one of the handful of individuals whose stories define our understanding of the Holocaust."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Large Print Nonfiction LP 940.53185 F853e Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Home Delivery - HN Adult Large Print Nonfiction LP 940.53185 F853e Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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