A review by rumay
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Everyone should read this. It offers an intriguing account of the life of a person who has been too hidden in the world of Holocaust survivors. It describes the atrocities Auschwitz and helps a person begin to understand what it may have been like. You can tell Freeland has so much care for Vrba, and has put so much research into the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Child death, Slavery, Deportation, Antisemitism, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Violence, Torture, Gun violence, Genocide, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Medical content, Vomit, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Pandemic/Epidemic, War, and Terminal illness

Minor: Sexual content