in the United States. In the late 1970s and 1980s, he worked for Richard Rashke, an American journalist and author who wrote the Escape from Sobibor first published in 1982. Blatt was commissioned by Rashke to help him locate and interview Sobibór survivors for the story of the revolt. Blatt also did his own research. In 1983, he interviewed Karl Frenzel after his release from prison, a Nazi German who had been third in command at Sobibór. Frenzel, convicted at trial and sentenced to life in prison for his actions at the camp, was released on appeal after serving 16 years. Blatt later claimed that his interview was the first one after World War II in which an extermination camp survivor spoke face-to-face with a camp functionary. The 1983 book by Rashke was adapted into the award-winning 1987 television film, Escape from Sobibor. It portrayed the events leading up to, and including the uprising in Sobibór. Blatt served as a technical adviser on the film. The revolt leaders Leon Feldhendler and Alexander Pechersky, as well as other camp prisoners including Blatt were played by actors. The film was directed by Jack Gold and shot in Yugoslavia. Blatt wrote two books about Sobibór. His first mémoire, From The Ashes of Sobibor (1997), is about his life before the war and the German occupation of Izbica leading up to the deportation of his family to the Sobibór death camp. His second mémoire titled Sobibor: the forgotten revolt (1998) also based on his own experience and supplementary research, and written with the help of his son Leon Blatt, describes the story of the prisoner revolt of October 14, 1943, as remembered by Alexander Pechersky and others. The book material was used as the source for his personal website by the same name. Blatt lived in Santa Barbara, California. He died at his home on October 31, 2015, at the age of 88. References External links Sobibor – The Forgotten Revolt, by Thomas Toivi Blatt Thomas Blatt – videotaped testimony – interviewed April 4, 1995, USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive Online Interview with Sobibor Survivor Thomas Blatt: 'Demjanjuk Should Confess' – May 13, 2009, Der Spiegel (online) Interview of Thomas Blatt – October 14, 2011, WMRA Thomas Blatt dies at 88; among 300 Jews who escaped Nazi death camp at Sobibor – November 3, 2015, Los Angeles Times ‘I’m still there – in