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World Service,14 Oct 2013,9 mins

Escape from Sobibor Death Camp

Witness History

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Hundreds of Jewish slave labourers in a Nazi death camp staged a revolt and escaped in October 1943. Many were caught and shot. Around 50 made it to the end of the war. Listen to the story of Thomas Blatt, one of the survivors. Photo: Sobibor Death Camp (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

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