Cover of the book, The Escape Artist, by Jonathan Freedland, showing the rails leading into Auschwitz

Telling the Story that Defies Telling

Jonathan Freedland’s ‘The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World’

Jeff Jarvis
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2 min readNov 8, 2022

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This is perhaps the single most effective chronicle of the Holocaust I have read.

Jonathan Freedland does not attempt to convey the full scope of the Holocaust or of Auschwitz; that is an impossibility in any…

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Jeff Jarvis
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Blogger & prof at CUNY’s Newmark J-school; author of Geeks Bearing Gifts, Public Parts, What Would Google Do?, Gutenberg the Geek