Jonathan Freedland.
JONATHAN FREEDLAND: RUDOLF VRBO BIOGRAPHY
the ESCAPE ARTIST: THE MAN WHO BROKE OUT OF AUSCHWITZ TO WARN THE WORLD (2022)
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize.
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Jonathan Freedlend recounts the astonishing story of Rudolf Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg in 1924) who escaped fron the Auschwitz concentration camp at the age of eighteen - to tell the world about the horrors of Auschwitz. In 1944, while the Holocaust was at its height, he was co-writer of the Vrba-Wetzler Report; this detailed the mass murder taking place. It was published in Switzerland, and is credited with causing a halt to the deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, saving the lives of more than 200,000 people.
In its review of Jonthan Freedland’s biography of Vrba, the Sunday Times wrote: ‘Excellent . . . thrilling . . . Freedland's book is rich in the kind of details that haunt you long after you have turned the last page’. Simon Schama wrote of it: ‘Immersive, shattering, and, ultimately redemptive book . . . An epic of terror and endurance . . . Written with Freedland's page-turning, gripping, hard-edged immediacy, The Escape Artist is profound in thought, boundless in humanity, an immediate modern classic’.
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Jonathan Freedland (born 1967) is an author and journalist who writes a weekly column for the Guardian. He also presents the BBC Radio 4 historical series ‘The Long View’. He obtained his degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University, where he edited the student newspaper Cherwell.
