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The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world / Jonathan Freedland.

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: xvi, 388 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781529369069 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.5318092 23
LOC classification:
  • DS135.S553 F7 2023
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 3000 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. A thrilling history with enormous historical implications, 'The Escape Artist' tells 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.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Non Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital General 940.53 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 25/10/2023 R17952L0499

Originally published: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 3000 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. A thrilling history with enormous historical implications, 'The Escape Artist' tells 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.

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