1:54:00
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
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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.
1:54:30
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.
1:55:00
After the war, Shlomo emigrated to Brazil,
where he married and raised 2 sons.
1:55:04
In South America he
was largely responsible
1:55:08
for the discovery of sergeant
Gustav Wagner in 1978.
1:55:11
Brazilian law did not allow for
sergeant Wagner's extradition,
1:55:14
but a year later he was
found, stabbed to death.
1:55:17
The records list Wagner's death:
suicide.
1:55:22
Captain Franz Reichleitner
was re-assigned to Trieste,
1:55:25
and was killed by partisans less than
3 months after the Sobibor revolt.
1:55:29
Esther Terner managed
to hide from Germans
1:55:32
and hostile Polish nationals
until the Russian liberation.
1:55:35
She moved to the United States and now
1:55:38
lives with her husband,
Irving, in New Jersey.
1:55:41
Esther has testified in many
war-crimes trials in West-Germany.
1:55:44
Including the trial of sergeant Eric Bauer
who died in prison.
1:55:48
Esther and Thomas Blatt
testified at the trial of sergeant
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Frenzel who was convicted and is
still alive, serving a life sentence.
1:55:57
Sasha Pechersky and many
of his men made it back to