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

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

Minor: Sexual content