Overview
- Summary
- "Escape from Auschwitz tells the incredible story of two young Slovak Jews, Rudol[f] Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, who managed to escape by hiding in a woodpile for three days, then fleeing across enemy territory, determined to tell the world about the atrocities being committed by the Nazis at the camp"--Container.
- Other Title
- Secrets of the dead (Television program)
- Format
- Video
- Published
- [United States] : Distributed PBS Home Video, [2008]
©2008 - Locale
- Poland
Oświęcim - Notes
-
Cataloged from container.
Originally aired on television as an episode of Secrets of the dead.
Narrator, Liev Schreiber.
Not rated.
DVD, widescreen presentation; stereo.
Closed-captioned.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 0793694418
9780793694419 - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white dequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. Internment camp escapes--Poland--Oświęcim. Nazi concentration camp escapes--Poland--Oświęcim. Internment camp inmates--Poland--Oświęcim--Biography. Nazi concentration camp inmates--Poland--Oświęcim--Biography. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Video recordings. Biographies. Personal narratives. Wetzler, Alfréd,--1918-1988. Vrba, Rudolf. Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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- 2024-06-21 20:52:00
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