The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland

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Two brave young Jews are on the run from their Nazi captors, who are in hot pursuit.

Jonathan Freedland reads his new book about the heroic and courageous young Jewish man who escaped Auschwitz. Today, with his friend, he is on the run from his Nazi captors.

Jonathan Freedland reads his gripping new book about the heroic and courageous young Jewish man who escaped Auschwitz. Today, with his friend, he is on the run from his Nazi captors, who are in hot pursuit.

The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland, the award-winning journalist, broadcaster and international bestselling author, tells the remarkable story of a young man who made it his mission to expose the chilling reality of Auschwitz and the Holocaust. Courage and a steely determination to do the right thing led Rudolf Vrba and his friend, Fred Wetzler, to make a daring escape from the heavily guarded concentration camp. An eyewitness to many stages of the Final Solution, Vrba committed to memory details of the concentration camp's brutal and murderous regime. His testimony found its way into report that was disseminated to Churchill, Roosevelt and the Pope and ultimately saved the lives of 200,000 Hungarian Jews.

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