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.
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Around 1944
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)