The Resource The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world, John Freedland
The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world, John Freedland
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- 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 3,000 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. Vrba would produce from memory a breathtaking report of more than thirty pages revealing the true nature and scale of Auschwitz -- a report that would find its way to Roosevelt, Churchill and the Pope, eventually saving over 200,000 Jewish lives. A thrilling history with enormous historical implications, THE ESCAPE ARTIST is 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. In telling his story, Jonathan Freedland -- the journalist, broadcaster and acclaimed, multi-million copy selling author of the Sam Bourne novels -- ensures that Rudolf Vrba's heroic mission will also escape oblivion
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 376 pages
- Contents
-
- The preparation
- The camp
- The escape
- The report
- The shadow
- Isbn
- 9781529369052
- Label
- The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world
- Title
- The escape artist
- Title remainder
- the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world
- Statement of responsibility
- John Freedland
- Language
- eng
- 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 3,000 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. Vrba would produce from memory a breathtaking report of more than thirty pages revealing the true nature and scale of Auschwitz -- a report that would find its way to Roosevelt, Churchill and the Pope, eventually saving over 200,000 Jewish lives. A thrilling history with enormous historical implications, THE ESCAPE ARTIST is 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. In telling his story, Jonathan Freedland -- the journalist, broadcaster and acclaimed, multi-million copy selling author of the Sam Bourne novels -- ensures that Rudolf Vrba's heroic mission will also escape oblivion
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- NJB
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Freedland, Jonathan
- Dewey number
- 940.5318
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- facsimiles
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Vrba, Rudolf
- Vrba, Rudolf
- Vrba, Rudolf
- Wetzler, Alfréd
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- World War, 1939-1945
- Nazi concentration camp inmates
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Nazi concentration camp escapes
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world, John Freedland
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- still image
- cartographic image
- text
- Content type code
-
- sti
- cri
- txt
- Contents
- The preparation -- The camp -- The escape -- The report -- The shadow
- Control code
- 000071977082
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 376 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781529369052
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1311457893
- Label
- The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world, John Freedland
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- still image
- cartographic image
- text
- Content type code
-
- sti
- cri
- txt
- Contents
- The preparation -- The camp -- The escape -- The report -- The shadow
- Control code
- 000071977082
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 376 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781529369052
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1311457893
Subject
- Military history
- Nazi concentration camp escapes -- Poland
- Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Poland
- The Holocaust
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Vrba, Rudolf -- Imprisonment
- Wetzler, Alfréd, 1918-1988
- World War II
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Poland
- Vrba, Rudolf
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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