Secrets of the Dead  Escape from Auschwitz

Two Auschwitz prisoners were determined to expose the horrors of the Nazi genocide Details

 
 

Program: Secrets of the Dead

Episode: Escape from Auschwitz

Nazi records show that tens of thousands of Jews from German-occupied territories were sent to Auschwitz to be executed each month. But two Auschwitz prisoners, Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, were determined to expose the horrors of the Nazi genocide and stop the killing factories forever. To do that, they had to become the first to escape from the heavily-guarded camp.

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Duration: (53:50)
Premiere Date: 04/29/2008
Episode Expires: 12/31/1969
TV Rating: TV-PG


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