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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.

Jonathan Freedlend recounts the astonishing story of Rudolf Vrba (born 1924) who escaped fron the Auschwitz concentration camp at the age of eighteen - to tell the world about the horrors of the camp.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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.

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