The ‘Schindler’s List’ Escape Room Is Real, and I Got Out

Inside a dubious effort to transform the tragedies of the Holocaust into a 60-minute puzzle game

Margarita Gokun Silver
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9 min readJan 9, 2019

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Partial set up of The Schindler’s List Escape Room, now known as The Secret Agent Escape Room. Source: Great Escape Rooms Thessaloniki

Our escape room experience in Thessaloniki, Greece, began like any other. The attendant explained the kinds of locks we’d encounter, showed us the items we weren’t supposed to move, and briefed us on the…

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Margarita Gokun Silver
GEN
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A freelance journalist. Author of the I NAMED MY DOG PUSHKIN (AND OTHER IMMIGRANT TALES) essay collection— https://buff.ly/39AsHhL. www.MargaritaGokunSilver.com