The Man Who Escaped Auschwitz (TRIH ep 291)
1944 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History features hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interviewing Jonathan Freedland about his book The Escape Artist, which reconstructs the life and April 1944 escape of Rudolf Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg) from Auschwitz-Birkenau. Freedland and the hosts discuss Vrba's early life in Slovakia, multiple attempts to avoid deportation, his work inside Auschwitz (including the warehouse nicknamed "Canada" and the ramp), and the slow realization of the camp's kil...
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- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Korean War (1950)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)