The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
Book of the Week
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland.
When Rudolf Vrba, a gifted young man who had been sent to Auschwitz was 18 years old and working on the ramp where most new arrivals were sent directly to their deaths, he realized that what made the mass murder so relatively simple for the SS was that the prisoners had no idea what awaited them.
That was when he decided to escape to tell the world what was going on.
This is the incredible and little known story of a man whose heroic and unbelievable feat ultimately saved the lives of 200.000 members of the Jewish community in Budapest - and potentially could have saved even more.