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Jonathan Freedland: The Escape Artist
Organised by The Guardian
Guardian journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Freedland will introduce his new nonfiction book, The Escape Artist.
Already acclaimed by the historian Sir Antony Beevor as "an immediate classic", it is the extraordinary story of 19 year old Rudolf Vrba: in April 1944, he and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became the first Jews ever to break out of Auschwitz. They did it to warn the world of the reality of the Final Solution, eventually smuggling out a detailed report that would reach Churchill, Roosevelt and the pope – and help to save over 200,000 lives. Freedland argues that Vrba deserves to be ranked alongside Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler and Primo Levi, among those whose stories define the Holocaust.
The Escape Artist is a thrilling adventure story, but it also raises profound questions for our own time: how the difference between truth and lies can be the difference between life and death, and how people can find it impossible to believe in their own imminent destruction.
Jonathan Freedland will be talking to Hadley Freeman, fellow Guardian journalist and the author of House of Glass, a family memoir of the Holocaust in France. They will both be taking your questions during this livestreamed event.
Running time: 60 minutes
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If you live in the UK, you can buy a ticket with a copy of The Escape Artist at checkout for a special combined price of £23 (RRP £20). Books will be despatched from publication date, 9 June. You can also add a copy of Hadley Freeman's House of Glass to your ticket.
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