The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland (Omnibus)
How a courageous young Jewish man escaped from Auschwitz to expose the Holocaust. Jonathan Freedland tells the powerful story.
The chilling reality of Auschwitz and the Holocaust compelled Rudolf Vrba and his friend, Fred Wetzler, to make a daring escape from the heavily-guarded concentration camp.
An eyewitness to many stages of the Final Solution, Vrba committed to memory details of the concentration camp's brutal and murderous regime.
His testimony found its way into a report disseminated to Churchill, Roosevelt and the Pope - and ultimately saved the lives of 200,000 Hungarian Jews.
The award-winning journalist Jonathan Freedland reads his powerful account about this heroic and courageous young Jewish man who escaped Auschwitz to reveal the truth about the Holocaust.
Omnibus of five parts abridged by Richard Hamilton..
Producer: Elizabeth Allard
First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in June 2022.
