It ranks among the most perilous and extraordinary escapes in Jewish history.
In 1939, the small Polish town of Mir, home to one of the world's premier yeshivas, suddenly came under the ruthless Nazi heel. As borders and alliances shifted, the yeshiva students fled to nearby Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania – only to become ensnared again a few months later, this time behind the Iron Curtain of the brutal, anti-religious Communist regime.
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