Talk:Thomas Blatt

message: I think that some of this should be mentioned, but it has no source (actually, one of my teachers is a friend of Mr. Blatt) and doesn't really fit in the article:
*Following the escape, he hid with a few other men in a hole in a Polish farmer's barn. One day, instead of food being put in the opening to the hole, the farmer put a gun down, shot them, and searched for money on them (the escapees actually had gold taken from the camp to survive on). He still has the bullet in his jaw.
*Later, in Israel, he related his story to a Holocaust survivor and expert. Because of Sobibor's secrecy and the implausability of an escape, the other man laughed at him and he stopped telling the story for a while.
He weren´t one of the leaders. In the movie he is the massengerboy.
In the true story. The boys name was "Drescher" eleven year.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.208.78.7 (talk) 19:50, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: October 2007

message: * In July 1984, Karl Frenzel was released on appeal due to a technicality. His appeal was lost on September 12, l985 and he was given a life sentence once more. As far as I recall, Frenzel remained in prison until about 1993 or 94, was released into the care of an Old peoples home and died in '98.
:: You are wrong. The pig Frenzel is still alive. Germans love their SS officers too much to put them in jail, thats why after being declared by a German Court in the 1980's to be on his death bed, he is still alive and kicking 25 years later. He is selling his autographs on the internet, and lives in Garbsen-Auf der Horst (near Hannover/Lower Saxony)). Here is a link http://www.startiger.com/celebrity_address/Karl_Frenzel_id166267.html Meishern (talk) 06:00, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Frenzel

message: is thomas blatt the last survivor of sobibor? Tony (talk) 14:38, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last sobibor survivor 

message: sobibor.info appears to be gone. It loads a domain holding page. I'll provide a link to it via the Wayback Machine. 68.46.9.6 (talk) 09:43, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: http://web.archive.org/web/20130329055327/http://www.sobibor.info/  --Igorp_lj (talk) 10:12, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

text: As I see you've already made such edits in the article. Thanks, --Igorp_lj (talk) 11:11, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

text: The Wayback mirror has also gone - looks like the current owner's robots.txt file has been retroactively honoured by archive.org. There seems to be a mirror at sobibor.net - can anyone comment on whether this is an official mirror that accurately reflects sobibor.info?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rdwperl (talk • contribs) 00:03, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Website appears to be gone. 

message: The biography of Thomas Blatt says nothing about the very important decade of his life following the Soviet takeover of Poland, and his subsequent emigration in 1958 immediately after the anti-Stalinist Polish October of 195657. Meanwhile, on the old black-and-white photograph from that period (featured), we can see him wearing the uniform of an officer. The officer of what formation? Poeticbent talk 20:58, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: * I agree about the language; the source by itself is not acceptable for our purposes, but it contains passages from Blatt's work where the subject of his postwar service has been mentioned. — That's all I wanted; the confirmation of fact about the uniform of an officer of either Polish or the Soviet security services. Please find me a source that proves otherwise. Thanks, Poeticbent talk 04:34, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Addendum: Purpose of an enquiry - Establishing whether Tomasz Blatt was in any way involved in the NKVD-UB persecution and extrajudicial killings of the Polish resistance movement in World War II members, known as the cursed soldiers, in Stalinist Poland. Before his emigration in 1959 Blatt studied journalism and apparently had something published in the political propaganda weeklies Świat and Kulisy. He had a run in with the Stalinist censorship in 1952 which might have prevented him from further reporting there. Nevertheless, in 1957 Poles in Israel thought he was making up things about Sobibor. Blatt himself omitted that part of his life story in his subsequent writings. On 14 October 2013 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, one of the highest Poland's Orders granted to foreigners or Poles resident abroad. —  Poeticbent talk 17:16, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death at the age of 88