During the Shoah, the Nazis,
in their quest for the final solution of the Jewish question,
utilized thousands of trains from Germany and the occupied countries
to transport 3,000,000 Jews to the concentration and death camps.
This is the little known, true story of a most remarkable and heroic rescue attempt which occurred on April 19, 1943, the first night of Passover, at the same time that the Warsaw Ghetto uprising began, some 1000 miles away.
On that night, Transport XX departed Mechelen, Belgium at 10 p.m.
with 1631, Jewish men, women and children for AuschwitzII-Birkenau.
Half an hour later, it was stopped by three young Belgians armed
with only 1 pistol, pliers and a hurricane lamp.
This was the only documented attack on a death train during the
Shoah.
Click to view trailer:
Our Trilogy of Shoah documentaries,
The Litvak Connection
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising-The
Survivors' Stories
Sobibor-The Plan, The Revolt, The Escape
which premiered at the 2010 Delray
Beach Film Festival and have been seen worldwide were selected by
Yad Vashem and made available on their computer monitors to visitors
at The Visual Center.
Richard Bloom Productions is the parent company of RKL Productions, an independent film production company founded by Karen Lynne and Richard Bloom