In this text adventure you are a Jew in the year 1942. Transported to Auschwitz concentration camp you
begin to devise an escape plan. Click the geometric shapes to navigate your way around the interactive
digital story.
To begin you must choose which fence will lead you to your freedom...
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North Fence
South Fence
East FenceWest Fence
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The guards have spotted you! You face the penalty....
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DEATH
THE GREAT ESCAPE FROM AUSCHWITZYou see other’s being caught in their escapement and decide to stay, praying one day you will be set free.
Go back to choose another pathway to freedom .
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You make a run for it across the yard without being noticed. At the fence safely you begin inching your body through the hole you have been working on for days. You are through. Yet you hear gun shots nearby. Make a run for it…
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Sprinting for the nearby forest they spot you and you are captured by the Gestapo! You are taken back to camp and march you with others to the gas chambers.
You have not reached your freedom.
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Upon making it to the fence you find others that have heard your escaping.
Do you take them or leave them....
Take the others Go alone
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You have made the decision to take the others. As one by one of you begin to proceed through the gap in the fence the sirens begin. Guards begin hunting for you all.
Will you keep pushing through the fence or surrender to the guards enclosing in on you...
Continue through
YOU SURRENDER
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You and the others choose to surrender to the German soldiers. You are all beaten and taken to the torture where you will all suffer and die in.
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The forest is dark and eerie. Cutting yourself on lantarna, you battle on and notice a dirt road ahead.
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You have planned this alone and leave them behind. You make your way through the gap in the fence you have been working on. As you escape you must choose to face the forest ahead of you or scale along the fence where you see a dirt road...
Scale along the fenceTo the forest
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The Dirt Road.
A pathway of death. People brought along this road will never return on this road. You notice a side path running parallel to the road. Take the path or dare to cross over the road to the other side.....
Cross the roadTake the pathway
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Oh No!
The pathway is full of German SS Soldiers! They lead you back into the camp where you are tortured to death...
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Finding the right time you make your way across the road and onto the other side safely. You begin to march further and further away from the camp and find yourself in between a street sign. Which one do you choose...
KRAKOW WARSAW
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Warsaw.
You arrive to the town exhausted and dying of starvation. No longer can you move your legs. You find your body shutting down and buckle to your knees. Gasping for your last breath.
You have failed.
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Krakow.
You find the place has been torn apart by the Gestapo. Bullet shells and bodies lying everywhere. As you make your way through you notice a house barely un touched. Do you risk your life and enter or move on heading to the next town...
Enter the house To the next town
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You enter in the house with a room full of German Soldiers! With a blink of an eye they shoot you dead.
YOU FAIL!
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Good choice.
You move along to the next town Olsztyn. Starving yet determined to find this port that will have ships departing to America. You see a sign ahead....
Keep going
THE GREAT ESCAPE FROM AUSCHWITZYou push your way through and begin to run for it. The gun shots begin and each prisoner except yourself are shot down. You see a forest ahead.
Continue to the forest
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20 Miles to Gydnia port.
This is it! You give everything you have got.
Just a little
further
THE GREAT ESCAPE FROM AUSCHWITZYou have reached your final destination. Freedom to another country.
WELL DONE