NOVA — S44E07 — Treasures of the Earth: Power

00:00:07 NARRATOR: In the heart of Lithuania,

00:01:50 and the legendary Holocaust escape tunnel

00:04:58 and Jon Seligman

00:07:18 by the thousands, one bullet at a time

00:09:43 They also found something else... The freshly dug pits

00:11:57 to the sounds of the first moments of the Final Solution

00:14:02 The spikes are then linked together with cables

00:17:04 the everyday language of European Jews

00:19:24 Some of those fragments were recovered in 2011

00:21:28 Mikvehs are great places to excavate, because people lose

00:23:16 a feature that has a right corner,

00:25:26 NARRATOR: In 1941, the 70,000 Jews of Vilna found themselves trapped

00:27:27 and threw her out

00:29:42 By this time, the Nazi execution site here

00:31:43 to dig them out and burn them

00:34:16 So they hatched a plan

00:36:27 NARRATOR: The first thing the geophysics team needs to figure out

00:38:35 "This is where you will live"

00:40:55 NARRATOR: Sam Bak was taken with his father

00:43:23 where he met the leaders

00:45:18 And around about three or four meters in that direction

00:48:24 GOL: And the guards started firing indiscriminately

00:50:47 Our technology indicates

00:53:24 it will never be erased