escape artist: the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]The escape artist: the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318092/0605
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]11506
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]London, England
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]John Murray
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2022
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]xii,376p.,index,bibliography
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Book
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9781529369052
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Describes Rudolf Vrba's ( formerly known as Walter Rosenberg) unprecedented escape from Auschwitz. 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.