The Auschwitz Escapee

The Forgotten Story of the First Witness Who Revealed the Full Truth About the Holocaust to the World!

April 10, 1944. Under threat of a agonizing death, two Jews—one of whom was only 19 years old— Rudolf Vrba (then still Walter Rosenberg) and the 25-year-old Alfred Wetzler – They accomplished the unthinkable: they managed to escape from the Nazi death camp Auschwitz.

Their goal is not simply to save themselves. They have a mission—to warn the last Jews in Europe of the planned extermination. In their desperate escape, Vrba and Wetzler cross mountains, wade through rivers, and narrowly escape German bullets.

Their sensational report, which reached as far as Roosevelt, Churchill, and Pope Pius XII, was the first document to convince the Allies that a ruthless genocide was being carried out in occupied Poland. Thanks to this report, 200,000 Hungarian Jews were saved, but Vrba believed until the end of his life that many more could have been saved.

In *The Auschwitz Escape*„ the award-winning journalist Jonathan Friedland unfolds in captivating detail the entire story of Rudolf Vrba, who was a firsthand witness to everything that happened in the concentration camp. His life after the war is no less complicated, and his dedication to telling the truth makes him a valuable witness against both Nazi defendants and the collaborators among his own people.

The name of Rudolf Vrba deserves to be remembered and honored alongside those of Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler, and Primo Levi. Read the astonishing true story of the man who risked everything throughout his life to ensure that the truth would be heard.