The main escape route for all the prisioners in the camp was mainly through tunnels. People would dig for hours in hopes of freedom.
While I was in Israel this past spring break we crawled through many tunnels people had carved out many many years ago also for escape routes. We got the chance to crawl through them ourselves, and while reading the book this was about the closest I could relate to what the POW's were going through, though I'm sure their opperation of making them and trying to stay unnoticed while doing so was much much more difficult.