The escape artist is a serial escapologist. There are escapes, both before he gets to aushwitz and later in his life. He arrives on the last day of june 19 forty two; he's just 17. Then after, by the way, he's made several attempts to evade nancy capture. And through a series of acts of kind of random good fortune and luck, where there, where their people are being picked out, some of whom will meet a hehorific end, he somehow evades that time and time again. The book i chart all the different deceptions.