Researchers discover escape tunnel used by Jewish prisoners to escape Nazi captors
India TV NewsVilnius: A group of researchers have discovered the location of a tunnel that was dug with spoons by Jewish prisoners to escape their Nazi captors during the second world war. According to researchers – a team of archaeologists, geophysicists and Jewish historians from Israel, the US, Canada and Lithuania, this tunnel was dug in 1944 by prisoners in the Ponar forest, known today as Paneriai, outside the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. “The tunnel shows that even when the time was so black, there was yearning for life within that.” Toward the end of the war the Nazis sought to erase the evidence of their mass killings. “It is a very important discovery, because this is another proof of resistance of those who were about to die,” said Markas Zingeris, director of the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum in Vilnius.
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