Thomas Blatt
Holocaust survivor (1927-2015) · Poland · On the map · Writers · Died at 88
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.
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A typical day, 30 days to 6 July 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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![Blatt in Poland a.k.a. Tobiasz Blatt[10] / Bolesław Stankiewicz[11][12] wearing uniform of an officer of the Department of Security (UB), the communist secret police.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Thomas_blatt.gif)
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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.
