The escape artist the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world
"In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz--one of only four who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world--and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them at the end of the railway line. Ag...
| Main Author: | Freedland, Jonathan, 1967- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Part I: The preparations. Star ; Five hundred reichsmarks ; Deported ; Majdanek
- Part II: The camp. We were slaves ; Kanada ; The final solution ; Big business ; The ramp ; The memory man ; Birkenau ; "It has been wonderful"
- - Part III: The escape. Escape was lunacy ; Russian lessons ; The hideout ; Let my people go ; Underground ; On the run ; Crossing the border
- Part IV: In black and white ; Men of God ; What can I do? ; London has been informed ; Hungarian salami
- Part V: The shadow. A wedding with guns ; A new nation, a new England ; Canada ; I know a way out ; Flowers of emptiness ; Too many to count.