Archaeologist Who Found Holocaust Escape Tunnels to Speak at Clark
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
GoLocalWorcester News Team
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Dr. Richard Freund, the archaeologist who discovered hidden holocaust escape tunnels in Lithuania will host a lecture at
Clark University.
The lecture titled “Escape from the Holocaust: Geoscience and Archaeology,” will take place on Thursday, March 30 at 7 p.m.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
The Lecture
In lecture, Freund will discuss his work in Vilna, Lithuania, where he and an excavation team used electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) technology to uncover an escape tunnel which had been hidden for 70 years.
The 100-foot tunnel, which was found between five and nine feet below the surface, had been dug over the course of 76 days by 80 prisoners using spoons and other small tools.
On the last night of Passover in 1944, the prisoners attempted the escape the tunnel; only 11 survived. Professor Freund’s team also uncovered a previously unknown mass burial pit next to the tunnel which may hold the remains of thousands of people.
Dr. Freund
Professor Freund is the Maurice Greenberg Professor of Jewish History and the director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford.
His books “Digging Through the Bible” (2009) and “Digging Through History” (2016) have unearthed questions about the past, including the Bible, the lost island of Atlantis, and the Holocaust.
Freund’s discovery made international headlines last year. Freund and his colleagues worked on a “Nova” documentary on this discovery, "Holocaust Escape Tunnel," which will premiere on PBS on April 19.
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