Escape from Sobibor
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1:53:04
Samuel, we're almost at the woods.
1:53:51
Over 300 prisoners escaped safely
to the forest.

1:53:57
Here, Eda and Itzhak Lichtman
found each other.

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On the run, they managed to stay alive.
1:54:03
After the war they were
married and emigrated to Israel,

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where they till live
in Holon, near Tel Aviv,

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close to other Sobibor survivors.
1:54:12
Toivi with 2 other boys
was hidden by a Polish

1:54:15
farmer who eventually
shot them for the money.

1:54:18
With a bullet in his
jaw, Toivi pretended to be

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dead and managed to stay
alive until liberated.

1:54:24
Thomas "Toivi" Blatt
married and has 3 children.

1:54:27
Today he lives in Santa
Barbara, California.

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Yet he returns each year to Sobibor
in remembrance of his family who died there.

1:54:36
Chaim and Selma made it to a small farm
1:54:39
where they were given
shelter until the liberation.

1:54:42
Happily married for more than 40 years,
and the parents of 2 grown children,

1:54:45
Chaim and Selma Engel
now live in Connecticut.

1:54:51
Stanislaw "Shlomo" Szmajzner
joined the partisans and

1:54:53
became an active fighter
against the Nazis in Poland.

1:54:56
There is no record of what happened
to his younger brother Moses.


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