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V dubnu 1944 se Rudolf Vrba zařadil mezi hrstku lidí, jimž se podařilo utéct z Osvětimi. Udělal to, aby odhalil pravdu o táboře smrti a varoval poslední Židy v Evropě před krutým osudem čekajícím na konci železniční trati. Rudolf Vrba propašoval ven vůbec první popis Osvětimi – a ten se dostal až k Franklinu Rooseveltovi, Winstonu Churchillovi nebo papeži. Díky jejich odvaze byl celý svět přinucen přestat zavírat oči před jedním z nejstrašnějších zločinů v celé historii lidstva. V roce 2007 vyšla kniha Rudolfa Vrby Utekl jsem z Osvětimi. Příběh slovenského Žida za okupace shrnuje především jeho zážitky z koncentračního tábora, končí rokem 1945. Kniha Jonathana Freedlanda velmi poutavě a autenticky líčí nejen toto období, ale i vše, co se odehrálo potom – tzn. předání informací o dění v Osvětimi představitelům židovské obce a následně britským spojencům i celý jeho další profesní i rodinný život. Rudolf Vrba zemřel v Kanadě v roce 2006. Strhující vyprávění od oceňovaného žurnalisty vás provede neuvěřitelným, a přece skutečným příběhem muže, který odhalil nejtemnější tajemství holocaustu.

Anne Frank. Primo Levi. Oskar Schindler . . . Rudolf Vrba. In April 1944 nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became the first Jews ever to break out of Auschwitz. Under electrified fences and past armed watchtowers, evading thousands of SS men and slavering dogs, they trekked across marshlands, mountains and rivers to freedom. Vrba's mission: to reveal to the world the truth of the Holocaust. In the death factory of Auschwitz, Vrba had become an eyewitness to almost every chilling stage of the Nazis' process of industrialised murder. The more he saw, the more determined he became to warn the Jews of Europe what fate awaited them. A brilliant student of science and mathematics, he committed each detail to memory, risking everything to collect the first data of the Final Solution. After his escape, that information would form a priceless thirty-two-page report that would reach Roosevelt, Churchill and the pope and eventually save over 200,000 lives. But the escape from Auschwitz was not his last. After the war, he kept running - from his past, from his home country, from his adopted country, even from his own name. Few knew of the truly extraordinary deed he had done. Now, at last, Rudolf Vrba's heroism can be known - and he can take his place alongside those whose stories define history's darkest chapter. Review Excellent . . . thrilling . . . Freedland's book is rich in the kind of details that haunt you long after you have turned the last page -- Sunday Times A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information - and misinformation -- Yuval Noah Harari A magnificent book. I could scarcely breathe at some points. What a tribute to its extraordinary hero, and it's such an important and necessary story to read . . . I can't praise it too highly. What an achievement -- Philip Pullman An immediate classic of Holocaust literature. Superbly researched and written, it is both a gripping story and deeply moving, I literally could not put it down -- Antony Beevor 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 -- Simon Schama Awe inspiring, exciting and poignant, this is a thrilling read, a piece of redemptive storytelling and a work of important Holocaust historical research: Freedland has given Rudolf Vrba his rightful place in history - and in the process written a book that I couldn't put down -- Simon Sebag Montefiore The Escape Artist is marvellous. It is original, meticulous and utterly compelling - and ultimately a deeply tragic tale -- Philippe Sands A must-read stand out piece of history . . . This is Freedland at his finest . . . It is both a celebration of the extraordinary will, courage and resilience of the hero - Rudi Vrba - and an all too prescient warning of how hard it is to wake up the world to things it would prefer not to see -- Emily Maitlis A work of the highest quality about an astonishing man. It is gripping from start to finish, searingly, shocking, revelatory, and deeply moving - the more so because there is no false note, no striving for effect. The research is prodigious and the complexities deftly woven into the narrative . . . A profoundly troubling and important work -- Jonathan Dimbleby A masterpiece of page-turning history: an escape story that is also a fearless exploration of some of the most profound questions that face humanity. Rudolf Vrba's extraordinary testimony will deepen your understanding of the Holocaust - and compel you to think afresh about our own times, and the role of truth, denial and fragile memory. Magisterial -- Matthew d'Ancona The story of Vrba's escape from Auschwitz, exquisitely told by Jonathan Freedland, soars like a thriller. Exhilarating, deeply moving, and historically important -- Simon Parkin Powerful, important, compelling and superbly told. This is a book that needs to be read -- Bart van Es, bestselling author of The Cut Out Girl An indispensable, unflinching, bone-hard book. Compelling reading -- Howard Jacobson I read it with my heart beating fast, full of horror, rage, despair - and admiration for this potent demonstration of the stubborn resilience of the human spirit -- Tracy Chevalier Brilliant -- Julia Neuberger Meticulously researched . . . shocking but thrilling, and ultimately overwhelmingly inspiring -- Daily Mail Astonishing . . . An indispensable part of Holocaust history . . . Gripping -- Guardian An utterly gripping narrative, incorporating a restrained though harrowing picture of life in Auschwitz and a kind of heroic adventure story -- Guardian About the Author Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist and former foreign correspondent. He was named Columnist of the Year in 2002, Commentator of the Year in 2016 and won an Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2014. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series, The Long View, and is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is the author of 11 books, two of them non-fiction, including his first book, the award-winning Bring Home the Revolution. He has written nine thrillers under the name Sam Bourne, including The Righteous Men which was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller and has sold over 2 million copies worldwide.

The astonishing, forgotten story of the hero who escaped from Auschwitz to reveal the truth of the Holocaust.

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1940. Europe is ablaze. America is undecided about joining the fight against Nazism. James Zennor, a brilliant, troubled Oxford don is horrified. Then he returns from rowing to discover his wife has disappeared with their young son, leaving a note declaring her continuing love. A frantic search through wartime England leads James across the Atlantic to Yale, one of America's greatest universities - right to the heart of the American establishment. And in his hunt for his family, James unearths one of the deadliest secrets of a world at war.