ESCAPE ARTIST

Sub-titled 'The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World' the book has variously been described by top critics as heart wrenching, gripping, an immediate classic, shattering, and indispensable. April 1944 and 19 year old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became two of the very first Jews to successfully escape Auschwitz. Evading the thousands of SS men hunting them, they made the perilous journey on foot across Nazi-occupied Poland. Their mission was to reveal to the world the truth of the Holocaust. Vrba's unique testimony would save some 200,000 lives. But he kept on running - from his past, from his home country, his adopted country, even from his own name. Now at last his heroism can be widely known. Freedland retells this story "so powerfully that you will read it with your heart beating fast, full of horror, rage, despair and admiration for the stubborn resilience of the human heart" as Tracy Chevalier beautifully observed. Updated with a new chapter for this 2023 paperback edition. Includes maps and photos, 388 page paperback.