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Guardian's Zionist gatekeeper rewrites Holocaust history

Greenstein, Tony
http://electronicintifada.net/content/guardians-zionist-gatekeeper-rewrites-holocaust-history/48441

Publisher:  Electronic Intifada
Date Written:  22/08/2024
Year Published:  2024  
Resource Type:  Article

Book review of "The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World" by Jonathan Freedland

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"On 10 April 1944, alongside Alfred Wetzler, Vrba escaped from Auschwitz with the aim of warning Hungarian Jewry of the Nazis' plans to exterminate the last major surviving Jewish community in Europe.

Freedland's problem, in wanting to write about this Jewish Holocaust hero, is that Vrba was not a Zionist. The Zionist movement, because of its collaboration with the Nazis (its desire to take advantage of their rise to power) has virtually no Jewish anti-Nazi resistance heroes to its credit....

My first criticism of The Escape Artist is its title. It gives the impression that Vrba was a circus act, another Houdini. Indeed Freedland makes just such a comparison. Freedland manages, in one short phrase, to both demean and trivialize Vrba's bravery and heroism. Vrba was no escape artist or magician. He was someone whose survival was a combination of extreme bravery, good judgment and pure luck."

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