Helena Bonham Carter shines light on extraordinary stories from World War Two.
, Helena Bonham Carter shines a light on the extraordinary stories of some of the most fascinating unsung heroes of the Second World War.
Trained from infancy as a circus performer and acrobat, Gurême’s unique skills would allow him to escape from scores of internment camps across France and Germany during the Second World War. It seemed there was no level of security that could keep him captive for long. And when he slipped out of their clutches, Raymond Gurême dedicated himself to sabotaging the people and powers that sought to kill him and others like him.
Gurême contorted himself to pass his legs through his cuffed arms so his arms were in front, then forced the handcuffs off his hands, causing injuries. He found a nail embedded in the wood of the hut and then used that with the handcuffs as a wedge to force a gap between two planks until he could squeeze through it. He climbed a tree and stayed there all night, then the next morning scaled a barbed-wire fence to escape from the camp.
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