Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges

Henry Herzog survived the liquidation of the Rzeszow ghetto in Poland and endured terrible hardships in forced labor camps. He documents the increasing severity of Nazi rule in Rzeszow and the complicity of the Jewish council (the Judenrat) and Jewish police in the round-ups for deportation to the Belzec concentration camp. One of these deportations took his parents to their deaths. His brothers were caught, tortured, and killed by the Gestapo. Herzog and his sister escaped to Hungary where although she found refuge he was betrayed, arrested, and finally put on a train to the concentration camps. Escaping by jumping off the train and fleeing into the Tatra Mountains, he joined a group of Russian partisans to fight the Nazis.
1995 paperback, Saga Publishers / Folio Private"

Author: Glenn Lovell
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 12/01/2008
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.02w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9780299228347

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/15/2008 pg. 71
Chronicle of Higher Education 01/09/2009 pg. 17

About the Author
Glenn Lovell is the former film critic for the San Jose Mercury News. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Variety, and Columbia Journalism Review. He teaches film studies at De Anza College and other schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. He contributed to Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist, by Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle.