Sobibor Interviews 1983-1984, interview 14, Thomas Blatt

Identifier
urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-mfgm-73
Language of Description
Dutch
Dates
1 Jan 1942 - 31 Dec 1945, 1 Jan 1983 - 31 Dec 1984, 29 Jun 2012
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Dutch
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  • Jules Schelvis

Scope and Content

Interview with Thomas Blatt (Izbica 15 April 1927). Blatt arrived in Sobibor by truck on 23 April 1943. He escaped the gas chamber because a guard spotted him among the women and children and said: "Du Kleiner, komm mal 'raus". In the camp he had to help strengthen the fencing, later he had to sort and burn documents. After his escape he was shot by a Polish farmer and he wandered through the surrounding forest until the liberation. The bullet remained lodged in his lower jaw for the rest of his life. After the war he moved to Santa Barbara in California.

Conditions Governing Access

OPEN_ACCESS

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

video/mp4

MP4

Finding Aids

Subjects

Places

  • Czech Republic
  • Poland
  • Sobibor
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