Escape from Auschwitz / a Firefly production for Thirteen/WNET New York and ITVS International in association with Five, Channel Four International and History Channel (UK) ; producer/director, Alex Dunlop.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DVD-0383

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
Other Authors/Editors: Firefly (Firm)
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Channel Five (Great Britain)
Channel 4 International.
History Channel (Great Britain)
PBS Home Video.
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.

Language: English
ISBN: 0793694418
9780793694419
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white dequences ; 4 3/4 in.

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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