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Synopsis: While mapping out the largest cave system in Ukraine, explorer and investigator Chris Nicola discovers evidence that five Jewish families spent nearly a year and a half in the pitch-black caves to escape the Nazis. This is the story of the longest uninterrupted underground survival in recorded human history.
Genre: Documentary, War
Director(s): Janet Tobias
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
PG-13
Year:
2012
83 min
$199,659
Website
46 Views


to throw at them in the eyes in case they come in. [ soIdier speaking German ] Somehow, I figured out

that my grandmother is a strong Iady. And if I'II be

where my grandmother is, maybe I'II survive. [ soIdiers speaking German ] We were pretty good tiII... tiII Sukkos '42. They surrounded the city,

and they went from house to house, and they took away 900 peopIe. More than haIf of the Jewish peopIe

they took away to BeIzec, to the concentration camps. And the rest had to go

to the ghetto. My mother said,

"No, we are not gonna go to the ghetto. "We come to the ghetto,

and two days Iater, we are gone." "NisseI," she said

to my oIder brother, NisseI, "you go and Iook for a pIace. "You go in the forest there

and dig a hoIe somewhere tonight." My uncIe NisseI

went to BiIche zIote, and he said, "We shouId go to Verteba,

to the Grotto." ESTHER: In the center

of the BiIche zIote VaIIey was a very extensive cave, which had attracted speIeoIogists

from aII over Europe. We had no choice. We tried to stick

the famiIy together. That was our goaI. My cousin, SoI WexIer,

was with us. YOUNG SOL WEXLER:

There were three of us-- my mother,

my younger brother Leo, and I. My father had gone to New York

before the war broke out, but we got stuck. We began transporting here at night wood, kerosene, candIes, food, and water. We set up cIose pIace,

not far from the entrance. My mother said,

"We take everything with us." We had everything there.

We were equipped. [ sawing ] SAUL:

We start buiIding up some beds. Piece of wood here, naiI it,

two pieces of board. We bend those sides, and we brought in

some straw, some hay, anything. SONIA:

We came to Verteba. [ gasps ] My God! I've got a pIayground here. I wouId make-beIieve

I'm Iiving in a castIe, and it was wonderfuI

not being in a bunker. My grandmother was

very worried I shouIdn't get Iost. You know,

the cave had so many mazes going this way and that way.

- Sima? - You just had to take the wrong turn...

- Sima! and I was a very IittIe girI. [ rock cIinks in cup ] SAM:

It was warm. It was dry. And we had piIIows and covers,

and we had food. SONIA:

My father and my grandfather and my UncIe NisseI

aII bought badges. They paid off the Ukrainian poIice, and they were aIIowed

to buy back a horse and wagon from the peasants. They were coIIecting scrap iron

for the German government, but they were free. SAM:

So they couId stay in our house. They were driving around aII over. NisseI and my father

and Sima's and Sonia's father brought in food

and water and whatever we needed. I used to expIore. That was my thing. I used to waIk around

in every hoIe, in every pIace. SAUL:

Sam says he couId see. Maybe his eyes are different. I couIdn't go from here to there.

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Janet Tobias

Janet Tobias is a media executive specializing in healthcare as well as an Emmy Award-winning director, producer, and writer.She directed most notably No Place On Earth in 2012, a docudrama about two caves in the Ukraine in which three dozen Jews escaping the Holocaust successfully hid for a total of 511 days. Her screenplay, co-written with Paul Laikin, was a finalist for the 2014 Award for Documentary Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America.Tobias is currently directing Unseen Enemy, a documentary on the threat of pandemics in the 21st century set to premiere in late 2015, and to air on CNN in 2016. more…

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