Jack Van Der Geest

Jack Van Der Geest

A Dutch resistance fighter named Jack Van Der Geest was one of eight people to escape from Buchenwald. Pretending to be dead, at 80 lbs, he hid in a pile of bodies for 11 hours before killing a Nazi, stealing his uniform and a motorcycle to escape.

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