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04530cam a2200601 i 4500 001 42496496142511EE8E0ED416233FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20230626082755 008 230320t20222022nyuab b 001 0beng 010 $a 2022435308 020 $a 0063112337 020 $a 9780063112339 035 $a (OCoLC)1373619499 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d JBZ $d JVK $d IMT $d IK2 $d RNL $d CGB $d ORX $d VP@ $d MBB $d YU6 $d CLE $d UAP $d JRQ $d HQD $d ZGR $d GZN $d BDX $d TXSCH $d IBI $d QS3 $d KLG $d CUI $d WAU $d FHP $d Q2U $d DAC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d KMS $d XII $d AUM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-xo--- 050 00 $a D805.5.A96 $b F754 2022b 082 00 $a 940.53/1853862 $2 23/eng/20230320 100 1 $a Freedland, Jonathan, $d 1967- $e author. 245 14 $a The escape artist : $b the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world / $c Jonathan Freedland. 246 30 $a Man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world 250 $a First U.S. edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2022] 300 $a x, 376 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 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 0 $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. 586 $a National Jewish Book Award - Biography, 2022. 600 10 $a Vrba, Rudolf. 610 20 $a Auschwitz (Concentration camp) $v Biography. 650 0 $a Nazi concentration camp escapes $v Biography. 650 0 $a Holocaust survivors $v Biography. 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) $z Slovakia. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Jews. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Jewish. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Social History. $2 bisacsh 600 17 $a Vrba, Rudolf. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00259964 600 17 $a Wetzler, AlfreÌd, $d 1918-1988. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01646259 610 27 $a Auschwitz (Concentration camp) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00723014 650 7 $a Nazi concentration camp escapes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02028895 650 7 $a Nazi concentration camp inmates. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02028897 651 7 $a Poland. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206891 650 7 $a Holocaust, 1933-1945. $2 sears 648 7 $a 1939-1945 $2 fast 655 0 $a Biographies. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 $n 1 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20230626085004.0 $n 12 $p + 1 LP, 1 CD 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=42496496142511EE8E0ED416233FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search