"As an Israeli whose family originated in Lithuania, I was reduced to tears on the discovery of the escape tunnel at Ponar. An international research team has discovered a legendary tunnel that Jewish prisoners secretly dug out with spoons to try to escape their Nazi captors during World War II, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday. The tunnel was dug in 1944 by prisoners being held in a pit at the Ponary killing fields outside Vilnius, Lithuania. What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II (Ezra Wolfinger/Israel Antiquities Authority via AP)A tunnel that was dug by Jews to escape Nazi death squads has been unearthed in Lithuania, according to a team of archaeologists from the United States, Israel and Canada.

Source: Washington Post June 29, 2016 17:47 UTC