Message from the Holocaust

Rosenberg Vrba spent the rest of his life regretting that his report didn't gain enough traction to save more Jews, especially those from Hungary

The Escape Artist: The Man who Broke out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

Author: Jonathan Freedland

Publisher: Hachette

Pages: 376 

Price: Rs 799

As a genocidal project designed and organised on a mammoth industrial scale, the Holocaust has been the subject of considerable scrutiny. Countless academics, writers and film-makers have left few aspects of this monstrous crime unexamined. Such gifted writers as Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi have provided us with intimate knowledge of Auschwitz, the labour and death camp in southern Poland, which has become a universal grim monument to that tragedy (literally: It is now a museum). So Jonathan Freedland does not