Summary information

Study title

Sobibor Interviews 1983-1984, interview 14, Thomas Blatt

Creator

Jules Schelvis
NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Study number / PID

doi:10.17026/dans-z3h-s9c7 (DOI)

easy-dataset:50496 (DANS-KNAW)

NIOD archief 804 Onderzoek - vernietigingskamp Sobibor, inventarisnummer 27 (DANS-KNAW)

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Abstract

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.


Date Submitted: 2012-06-29

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Data collection period

1983 - 1984

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Publisher

DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities

Publication year

2012

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