On 20 June 1942, four prisoners escape Auschwitz through the front gate, disguised as SS officers.
On 20 June 1942, four prisoners escape Auschwitz through the front gate, disguised as SS officers. Among them is the Polish 22-year-old Kazimierz Piechowski. During the first days of the war, he saw how the Germans killed his friends from the boy scouts, who were perceived as potential sources of resistance. Knowing that he will suffer a similar fate if he doesn't flee, Piechowski decided to run for the Hungarian border to join the Polish forces in exile. Piechowski was arrested before he could cross the border, but he wasn't executed as he had feared. Instead, the Germans sent him to various prisons before leaving him at Auschwitz. There, Piechowski was put to work as a construction worker and, once the crematorium was done, as a body hauler. He found new comrades among the camp's underground resistance and did not think of escape until he learned that his friend Eugeniusz Bendera was on the death list. Together, they begin plotting their escape, bringing two more men on ...