"Researchers Uncover Long-Lost Tunnel Used By Jews To Escape Extermination Pits" : The Two-Way : NPR

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The group of 80 prisoners who attempted to escape through the tunnel was known as the Burning Brigade. Freund explains, "They were from the local area and brought there for the most gruesome task of the entire Holocaust: These people were brought there, 80 Jews, to burn all the bodies..."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/29/484017541/researchers-uncover-long-lost-tunnel-used-by-jews-to-escape-extermination-pits

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