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Podcast: Jonny Gould's Jewish State
Episode: 88: Jonathan Freedland: The Escape Artist, Rudolf Vrba. The teenage Jew who escaped Auschwitz
Description: Only four Jewish prisoners ever escaped the vicious SS guards, their ferocious dogs, rows of tall electrified fences and men on watchtowers wielding automatic weapons of Auschwitz-Birkenau.But Walter Rosenberg, just 19-years-old used knowledge, cunning and patience to do what no Jew had done before.He and Alfred Wetzler, in his early twenties, escaped from Auschwitz. But Walter, later to become Rudolf Vrba, hasn't been legendized like others who emerged from what became known as the Holocaust.Until now. Because his audacious breakout with Fred saved the lives of 200,000 Jews, mostly from Budapest...