Holocaust

By shaun oyelami

  • When and where Thomas Blatt was born

    When and where Thomas Blatt was born
    Thomas Blatt was born in April 15 1927 In a small town called Izbica,Poland.

  • Thomas Blatt town

    Thomas Blatt town
    Thomas Blatt town was occupied by the Nazis and turned into a ghetto for the Jews.Thomas escaped the ghetto that was in Izbica but then got caught and then imprisoned at 15 years old.He managed to escape and went back to Izbica.

  • Sobibor death camp

    Sobibor death camp
    Nazis deported Thomas's family to a death camp called Sobibor death camp.When they got to the camp his family got separated and then murdered.Leaving only Thomas left at the camp to be a labor slave.

  • Prisoner revolt in the death camp

    Prisoner revolt in the death camp
    This revolt in the death camp killed most of the Nazi staff members and letting 300 hundred out of the 600 hundred escape.Only 54 survived out of the 300 hundred due to the minefields and Thomas Blatt managed to survive that minefield and the prisoner revolt.(I could not find any images off the after math of the prisoner revolt in the death camp)

  • Thomas finds a refugee farm

    Thomas finds a refugee farm
    Thomas Blatt and two other prisoners found a farm refugee and they hid the three boys for money But they got betrayed and Thomas got shot in his jaw but he managed to escape.(I could not find a photo for this but this is what a refugee camp look liked back then)

  • After the mass escape

    After the mass escape
    After the mass escape Germany closed and dismantle the camp and bulldozed the site and planted a lot of trees to hide any evidence of the death camp

  • Thomas Blatt

    Thomas Blatt
    Thomas Blatt decided he would accurately persevere the memories of the 250,000 Jews who were murdered in the Sobibor death camp.

  • Thomas Blatt emigrated

    Thomas Blatt emigrated
    Thomas Blatt emigrated from Europe to Israel then later to the United states when he was in the U.S he worked as a journalist to locate and interview other holocaust survivors.

  • Thomas Blatt

    Thomas Blatt
    Thomas Blatt continued his passion in preserving the memories of the 250,000 Jews that died in the Sabibor death camp by publishing two books called Sobibor The Forgotten Revolt and From The Ashes Of Sabibor.

  • Thomas Blatt died

    Thomas Blatt died
    Thomas Blatt sadly passed as a holocaust survivor a writer of memories and one of the lucky 54 people who survived the escape of Sobibor the death camp.