Telling the Story that Defies Telling
Jonathan Freedland’s ‘The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World’
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2 min readNov 8, 2022
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…