
Against Mind and Heart
One day in 1943, the truth collided with a very human failing: our inability to believe those facts which are too awful to bear.
Jonathan Freedland is the author of The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World (HarperCollins, 2022). He is a columnist for The Guardian, and the co-host of the Unholy: Two Jews on the News podcast alongside the Israeli journalist Yonit Levi.
One day in 1943, the truth collided with a very human failing: our inability to believe those facts which are too awful to bear.