Thomas Blatt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Thomas Blatt

Polish resistance member

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1927

Place of Birth: Izbica, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 31-Oct-2015

Profession: writer, memoirist

Nationality: United States, Poland

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Thomas "Toivi" Blatt (born Tomasz Blatt; April 15, 1927 – October 31, 2015) was a Polish-American 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 Sonderkommando 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 the Soviet-controlled Poland until the Polish October revolution.
In 1957, he emigrated to Israel, and in 1958 settled in the United States.