That Jewish News Show: A daring escape from Auschwitz and the White House antisemitism plan
That Jewish News Show episode 5 featured a discussion of the White House antisemitism strategy and Jonathan Freedland’s new book, “The Escape Artist.” (the Forward; Harper Collins Publishers)
That Jewish News Show
“The Man Who Escaped from Auschwitz”
May 25, 2023
On the May 25, 2023 episode of That Jewish News Show, Laura E. Adkins and Benyamin Cohen of the Forward discuss the White House’s new National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. They were joined by Jonathan Freedland, a British journalist who writes a weekly column for The Guardian, to discuss his new book, The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, an incredible true Holocaust story of a man who escaped from a concentration camp.
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