Sobibor escape survivor Thomas Blatt dies aged 88

Polish-born Thomas Blatt, who lost both parents and a younger brother in the gas chambers of the Nazis’ Sobibor extermination camp, has died at his US home, aged 88.

Sobibor escape survivor Thomas Blatt dies aged 88

Polish-born Thomas Blatt, who lost both parents and a younger brother in the gas chambers of the Nazis’ Sobibor extermination camp, has died at his US home, aged 88.

Mr Blatt’s Warsaw-based friend, Alan Heath, said that he died on Saturday morning at his home in Santa Barbara, California.

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