# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-blatt
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:15:52.185Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-blatt"
name: "Thomas Blatt"
slug: "thomas-blatt"
description: "Thomas \"Toivi\" Blatt was a Holocaust survivor, writer of mémoires, and public speaker, who at the age of 16 escaped from the Sobibór extermination camp during the uprising staged by the Jewish prisoners in October 1943. The escape was attempted by about 300 inmates, many of whom were recaptured and killed by the German search squads. Following World War II Blatt lived in Poland until the Polish October. In 1957, he immigrated to Israel, and in 1958 settled in the United States."
tagline: "Holocaust survivor (1927–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_blatt.gif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-04-15"
deathDate: "2015-10-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.3
  momentum:             4.410058027079303
  historical:           11.21390133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0087843/"
    handle:    "nm0087843"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Blatt"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA"
    title: "توماس بلات"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blatt"
    title: "Thomas Blatt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blatt"
    title: "Thomas Blatt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blatt"
    title: "Thomas Blatt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blatt"
    title: "Thomas Blatt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A1_%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%98"
    title: "תומאס בלאט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blatt"
    title: "Thomas Blatt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blatt"
    title: "Thomas Blatt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blatt"
    title: "Thomas Blatt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%82%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Блатт, Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blatt"
    title: "Thomas Blatt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q870734"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3693698"
    title: "Thomas Blatt"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump