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Description:
Tunnel of Hope: Escape from the Novogrudok forced Labor Camp is likely to have been the greatest prisoner escape of the Holocaust through a 200 meter tunnel, the longest hand-dug tunnel of World War II. This escape in present-day Belarus was planned and executed by approximately 240 Jewish prisoners under the noses of their Nazi captors. In her book, the author has identified most of the escapees and found that at least 133 survived the escape. With the help of a genealogist, she located their descendants all over the world in order to write their inspiring pre and post-war life stories. She has also explored the important role of the nearby Bielski partisans in triggering the escape as well as the process of interviewing the second generation survivors. This book is a story of courage, persistence, and determination. Most of all it is a story of hope and of choosing life.

The book's 716 pages including 16 pages of color photographs

Tunnel of Hope: Escape from the Novogrudok Forced Labor Camp relates the extraordinary story of a mass escape of 240 or so Jews, inmates of a German slave labor camp in a former courthouse in the town of Novogrudok, today in Belarus, in September 1943. With unbelievable courage and immense resourcefulness, they secretly dug a long tunnel from the camp.… The book relates the personal stories of all 227 identified escapees.…
It is a very valuable addition to our knowledge of the only case we know of a successful venture like this.… Tunnel of Hope is a story of resistance, because organizing the escape and escaping is no less an act of resistance than fighting with arms in hand. We should be thankful to Dr. Cohen for this important addition to our knowledge.
Yehuda Bauer
Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University

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