Letters: Resistance and great escapes

30.04

One of the most daring and courageous escapes through a tunnel, which would have scored highly in Stephen Moss's rating of great escapes (Lucky breaks, G2, 26 April), was that of about 250 Jews escaping almost certain death in the Novogrudok ghetto, Belarus, in September 1943.

The tunnel was 250 metres long and 1 metre deep and took three months to dig. An electrician among the resistance group managed to divert electrical power from a cable serving the Nazi searchlights to provide lighting in the tunnel. Joiners built a railway line and trolley to carry out the earth, which was hidden in a loft.

Each escaper was given the name of the person they should follow in the tunnel. Once underground, in a confined space just large enough for a person to crawl through, there could be no turning back. The escape took 45 minutes. About 80 people were caught and killed. The rest joined the Jewish partisans hiding in the forest led by the Bielski brothers, made famous in the film Defiance.

Jeffrey Cohen

Nottingham

• Stephen Moss omits the greatest of all prison films, Robert Bresson's 1956 masterpiece A Man Escaped, based on the true story of André Devigny's breakout from a German castle/prison where he was awaiting execution as a resistance fighter. His implements were a stolen spoon, pieces of his bed (springs, sheets) and infinite patience. Top marks on all scores. Bresson said that he told the story with "no embellishments". True unless you consider directorial genius an embellishment.

Brian Baxter

Bournemouth, Dorset

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		View View items Letters: Resistance and great escapes 30.04 One of the most daring and courageous escapes through a tunnel, which would have scored highly in Stephen Moss's rating of great escapes (Lucky breaks, G2, 26 April), was that of about 250 Jews escaping almost certain death in the Novogrudok ghetto, Belarus, in September 1943. The tunnel was 250 metres long and 1 metre deep and took three months to dig. An electrician among the resistance group managed to divert electrical power from a cable serving the Nazi searchlights to provide lighting in the tunnel. Joiners built a railway line and trolley to carry out the earth, which was hidden in a loft. Each escaper was given the name of the person they should follow in the tunnel. Once underground, in a confined space just large enough for a person to crawl through, there could be no turning back. The escape took 45 minutes. About 80 people were caught and killed. The rest joined the Jewish partisans hiding in the forest led by the Bielski brothers, made famous in the film Defiance. Jeffrey Cohen Nottingham • Stephen Moss omits the greatest of all prison films, Robert Bresson's 1956 masterpiece A Man Escaped, based on the true story of André Devigny's breakout from a German castle/prison where he was awaiting execution as a resistance fighter. His implements were a stolen spoon, pieces of his bed (springs, sheets) and infinite patience. Top marks on all scores. Bresson said that he told the story with "no embellishments". True unless you consider directorial genius an embellishment. Brian Baxter Bournemouth, Dorset External source of this news: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/apr/30/resistance-and-great-escapes The Forsecurity.org is not responsible for the content of external websites. However, the Experts of the Foreign Policy and Security Research center can comment the news from external sources. 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