Closing Conversation: Jonathan Freedland

Sunday August 2, 2026 — 5:45 pm

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Melbourne poet and literary critic, Tali Lavi and award-winning journalist and author, Jonathan Freedland, discuss his bestselling books – The Traitors Circle: The Rebels Against the Nazis and the Spy Who Betrayed Them, the fascinating true story of a high-society, anti-Nazi resistance network in 1943 Berlin, and The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, the remarkable, investigative account of Rudolf Vrba, the first witness to reveal the full truth of the Holocaust.

**Category:** International Spotlight
**Speakers:** Closing Conversation: Jonathan Freedland – The Traitors Circle; The Escape Artist – Live Zoom with Tali Lavi