🎧 The Man Who Escaped Auschwitz
🎧 Dan Snow's History Hit • 30m
In April 1944 nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate, Fred Wetzler broke 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.
Celebrated journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Freedland joins Dan on the podcast to tell this astonishing story which can be found in his new book 'The Escape Artist'.
This episode does contain descriptions that some listeners may find distressing.
Produced by Mariana Des Forges
Mixed and Mastered by Dougal Patmore
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