Film: "Escape from the Holocaust" a story of two Polish star-crossed lovers who managed to escape the Nazi death camps.

Jacob Goldfarb and Rachel Aidelsztain are eagerly making plans for their marriage in Warsaw in the fateful summer of 1939. But on Sept. 1, 1939, Poland was directly in the path of the Nazi blitzkrieg that precipitated the single most destructive event in either human or natural history since the end of the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, WW II. Rachel and Jacob escape Nazi persecution and annihilation which ultimately takes the lives of 90% of Poland's Jews. They embark on a parlous epic journey with little more than the clothes on their back and cherished family photos to reach sanctuary deep inside the vastness of Soviet Russia. Three hundred thousand Polish Jews accompanied Jacob and Rachel on their perilous sojourn. Sadly, Rachel and Jacob were separated from each other, each sent to widely different labor assignments for the duration by Soviet authorities with plenty of troubles of their own. The Soviets would be invaded by the largest and most powerful army in military history. Between June 22, and November 22, 1941 the Russians would lose almost all of European Russia and ultimately 30,000,000 of its citizens to Nazi aggression and genocide. One out of every two people killed during WW II were Russian. Some sanctuary! During their precarious residence in Russia, Jacob built T-34 tanks for the Red Army and Rachel labored on a farm in Kazakhstan. Following the war, 1946, Jacob and Rachel along with 240,000 Polish Jewish survivors, were repatriated to Poland. See and hear their story told in their own heart-wrenching words as they ultimately travel across four continents before finally reaching the United States of America in 1960.