On the afternoon of January 19, 1942, in the very first Nazi death camp secretly built in Poland, a group of Polish Jewish prisoners attempt the unthinkable. Held captive as gravediggers, forced to bury the bodies of men, women and children murdered in gas vans, they decide to launch a daring escape. Even after having lost their families, burying them with their own hands, they are determined to flee, not for themselves, but to alert the world of what was happening. Using a stolen shard of glass, prisoners Solomon Wiener and Michael Podchlebnik tear through a transport truck and bolt into the forest. Fleeing gunfire and pursuing Nazi guards, Solomon and Michael brave a raging river, German soldiers and the Polish police before they become the first men to ever escape from a Nazi death camp, creating the world's first eyewitness account of the Holocaust. Taking place in real time and based on a never-before-told harrowing true story, "The World Will Tremble" is a nail-biting triumph of the human spirit, demonstrating that even under the most indescribable of human conditions, man's determination and will-not only to survive but to tell others-can overcome the most insurmountable of odds.