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Rudolf Vrba/Walter Rosenberg, was the first of 60,000 Jews who were deported from Slovakia between March and October 1942. He was the first to escape the hell of Auschwitz and just one of only four to do so. His friend Fred Wetzler escaped with him. Walter was caught and taken to Majdanek and was there for twelve days; from there he went to Auschwitz, having heard of something better called ‘Kanada‘. He had no idea what nightmares awaited⬇️

Fascinating, detailed true story. (There are some sections you don‘t want to be eating anything 😞).
The overall lesson from these tellings is that we don‘t learn from history, and we carry on killing people thinking it solves things. It never has, nor will it.

Train reading. On work thing to London. Travelling with 4 people, we‘ve all sat separately and are working/reading. My kind of work colleagues!

#quicklunchtimeread
Hardly anytime to read at the moment, squeezing 20 mins in.

Escaped the city and real life for a bit during the long weekend.

An incredible account of one of the only Jewish men to escape Auschwitz‘s-Birkenau.

This is an excellent account of a man who escaped from Auschwitz, and his determination to warn the world of the genocide. He was positive that once the world was aware, they would put an end to the death camps. He did not account for people‘s unwillingness to believe the unthinkable, or for political maneuvering. This is an important book about the atrocities committed by the Nazis, and the heroism of those who fought them.

Recommended from a virtual tour I took via the Holocaust Education Center on Auschwitz this year.

A brilliant book about Rudi Vrba‘s escape from Auschwitz with Fred Wetzler and their attempt to tell the world about the Final Solution. Highly engaging despite the harrowing material, I could not put this down. Gives a sense of the Europe-wide nature of the program & the deception & secrecy involved. And humans‘ refusal to believe even when told. Our discussion up now on Books On The Go 🎧.