NOVA: Holocaust Escape Tunnel For centuries, the Lithuanian city of Vilnius was one of the most important Jewish centers in the world, earning the title ""Jerusalem of the North,"" until the Nazis destroyed it. About 95% of its Jewish population of Vilna, its name in Hebrew and Yiddish, was murdered and its synagogues and institutions were reduced to ruins. The Soviets finished the job, paving over the remnants of Vilna's famous Great Synagogue, for example, so thoroughly that few today know it ever existed. Now, an international team of archaeologists are trying to recover this lost world. They will excavate the remains of its Great Synagogue and uncover one of Vilna's greatest secrets: a lost escape tunnel dug by Jewish prisoners inside a horrific Nazi execution site.
Producer: Kirk Wolfinger, Owen Palmquist, Melanie Wallace
Executive Producer: Kirk Wolfinger
Production Company: Lone Wolf Media for WGBH Boston.
Production Year: 2017
Copyright Year: 2017
Director: Kirk Wolfinger, Paula S. Apsell
Narrator: Jay O. Sanders
Writers: Owen Palmquist
Discs: 1
Subtitles: Y
Subtitle Language: English (SDH)
Audio Format: Stereo
Aspect Ratio: 16x9 Widescreen