It must be harrowing enough visiting the death camp where, 70 years earlier, your grandparents were put to death by the evil Nazi regime. Auschwitz is not a happy place for many, but for Riccardo Pacifici it would be particularly emotional being the leader of Rome’s Jewish community and all.

Now imagine that the film crew you are working with ends up locked inside, having wrapped filming their 70th anniversary of liberation piece at 11PM and finding the building locked.

Things didn’t get much better for the film crew once they escaped. This from newser:

After calls for help went unanswered, the crew broke a window to get out, which set off an alarm and brought police. They were held for questioning at the camp until 2:30am, then brought to a police station for more questioning until their release at 6am.

All this despite the fact that they had the permission of Polish authorities to film inside the camp. It took the intervention of Italian diplomats to ensure the crew was allowed to return to Rome. We imagine there was plenty of shouting, gesticulating and twirling of the moustache from the diplomats as they brokered the deal.

[source:newser]