Escaped

60 minutes, colour/bw, video

scenario & drection JETSKE SPANJER & ANGE WIEBERDINK
camera PETER BRUGMAN
sound GERT JAN MIEDEMA
editor JESSICA DE KONING
research GERARD NIJSSEN

In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, the Dutch Lon Verstijnen and the French Christine Bénedite were imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. The Allied Forces were advancing and the Nazis decided to clear the camps. They put the prisoners on forced marches, the so called death marches. Lon and Christine, together with seven other women managed to escape. As a group of nine, in six days they crossed hostile Germany and all of them reached the American troops. Three out of nine wrote about the adventures. Their diaries have been used in this film. Lon and Christine are now over 90. Still they never forgot that journey. They have never seen each other since.

documentary, 2009
coproduction Ange Wieberdink Producties