Auschwitz - The Great Escape ( Secrets of the Dead: Escape from Auschwitz )

Auschwitz - The Great Escape (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Secrets of the Dead: Escape from Auschwitz
Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
47 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Alexander Dunlop

Written By:
Alexander Dunlop

Actors:
Yehudi Bauer ..... Himself - Historian - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
David Cesarani ..... Himself - Historian - University of London
Martin Gilbert ..... Himself - Author
Adolf Hitler ..... Himself (archive footage)
Georg Klein ..... Himself - Witness to Vrba / Wetzler Report
Freddie Knoller ..... Himself - Auschwitz Survivor
Otto Pressburger ..... Himself - Auschwitz Survivor
Liev Schreiber ..... Himself - Narrator
Gerta Sidonova ..... Herself - Wife of Rudolf Vrba
Assaf Tamir ..... Translator

Synopsis:

Rudolf Vrba, 19, and his friend Alfred Wetzler were the first escapees to alert the world to the horrors of the Nazi killing machine. Auschwitz Birkenau was the largest of six death camps built to exterminate Jews, with thousands murdered every day. During the five years of its existence, there were many escape bids by prisoners. Most failed, with the unfortunate victims tortured before being killed, their bodies hung up to discourage others. Only five men, including Vrba and Wetzler, managed to get away and survive to write about their experiences in a damning report that came to be called the Auschwitz Protocols. As the document reached an incredulous world, the true purpose of Auschwitz became clear. Dramatic reconstructions and interviews with Holocaust survivors remind us of the events surrounding the pair's daring escape from their living hell.

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.

The death factory at Auschwitz was a closely guarded secret of the Third Reich - until two men, Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, escaped to tell the world about the Nazi atrocities. Escape from Auschwitz reveals the story of their escape and explores the controversial decision by the head of the Hungarian underground not to make their report public.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 13 November, 2015.