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04005aam a2200565 i 4500 001 05FBD16C6A5711EE821FDDB657ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231014010043 008 230425t20232022||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0063112361 020 $a 9780063112360 035 $a (OCoLC)1377293244 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Freedland, Jonathan, $e author. 245 14 $a The escape artist : $b the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world / $c Jonathan Freedland. 246 3 $a Man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world. 250 $a First Harper paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c 2023. 300 $a xii, 376 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a "Originally published in Great Britain in 2022 by John Murray (Publishers), a Hachette UK company"--Title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-359) and index. 505 $a The preparations. Star ; Five hundred Reichsmarks ; Deported ; Majdanek -- The camp. We were slaves ; Kanada ; The final solution ; Big business ; The ramp ; The memory man ; Birkenau ; "It has been wonderful" -- The escape. Escape was lunacy ; Russian lessons ; The hideout ; Let my people go ; Underground ; On the run ; Crossing the border -- The report. In black and white ; Men of God ; What can I do? ; London has been informed ; Hungarian salami -- 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. 520 $a 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. Against all odds, he and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers, and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the first full account of Auschwitz the world had ever seen - a forensically detailed report that would eventually reach Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the Pope. And yet too few heeded the warning that Vrba - then just nineteen years old - had risked everything to deliver. Some could not believe it. Others thought it easier to keep quiet. Vrba helped save 200,000 Jewish lives - but he never stopped believing it could have been so many more. This is the story of a brilliant yet troubled man - a gifted "escape artist" who even as a teenager understood that the difference between truth and lies can be the difference between life and death, a man who deserves to take his place alongside Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler and Primo Levi as one of the handful of individuals whose stories define our understanding of the Holocaust. -- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20230810. 586 $a National Jewish Book Award - Biography, 2022. 600 1 $a Vrba, Rudolf. 600 17 $a Vrba, Rudolf. 610 2 $a Auschwitz (Concentration camp) $v Biography. 610 27 $a Auschwitz (Concentration camp.) 648 7 $a 1939-1945. 650 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Jews. 650 $a Nazi concentration camp escapes. 650 $a Escaped prisoners $v Biography. 650 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) $z Slovakia. 650 $a Holocaust survivors $v Biography. 650 7 $a Escaped prisoners. 650 7 $a Jews. 650 7 $a Holocaust survivors. 650 7 $a Nazi concentration camp escapes. 651 7 $a Slovakia. 655 7 $a Biographies. 655 7 $a Biographies. 941 $a 6 952 $l CIPB482 $d 20240611010958.0 952 $l XWPC787 $d 20240111060334.0 952 $l ESPD725 $d 20240103010332.0 952 $l EWPB745 $d 20231216010150.0 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214032813.0 952 $l LBPB837 $d 20231014010541.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=05FBD16C6A5711EE821FDDB657ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search