Escape Artist. Jonathan Freedland. 2022.

In April 1944 nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became the first Jews ever to break out of Auswitz. Under electrified fences and past armed watchtowers, evading thousands of SS and their dogs, they freckled across marshlands, mountains and rivers to freedom, Vrba’s mission: to reveal to the world the truth about the Holocaust.

In the death factory of Auschwitz, Vrba has become an eyewitness to almost every chilling stage of the Nazis’ process of industrialised murder. He committed each detail to memory, risking everything to collect the of the Final Solution. It would form a priceless thirty-two-page report that would reach Roosevelt, Churchill and the pope, and eventually save over 200,000 lives.