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An extraordinary true story of survival and courage through the Holocaust
Poland 1943 It was the last refuge of the desperate a warren of sewers underneath their city Above as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov a small band of Jews escaped into a grim network of tunnels living for fourteen months with the citys waste the sudden floods the fumes and the damp the rats the darkness and the despair
Their only support was a lone sewer worker an excriminal who constantly threatened to leave them Many died some falling into the rushing waters of the river some simply of exhaustion At one point the survivors found themselves trapped in a chamber filling to the roof with stormwater
Yet survive they did even infiltrating the camps above to find their missing relatives When the Russians liberated Lvov they emerged from the sewers filthy bent double emaciated unrecognizable but alive
This powerful story based on a long series of interviews and a hitherto private diary creates a blazing testimony to human faith and endurance
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