Published: 2 July 2016
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Captives painstakingly dug their way out of Ponar forest death pits by hand. On the last night of Passover - 14 April 1944 - 40 escaped through the tunnel. Many were shot, but 15 managed to cut the fence and escape and 11 of them reached partisan forces and survived the war to tell about the escape and help expose the scope of crimes committed by Nazi forces and their collaborators in the area.
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