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Sobibor survivor Thomas Tovi Blatt confronts Death Camp Commandant Karl
Frenzel (forced labour section) in 1983
Thomas Tovi Blatt (left) and Karl Frenzel meet in a hotel room in Hagen
Germany in 1983
Thomas Blatt: Here you are drinking beer. With that smile on your face you
could be anybody’s neighbour, anybody’s fellow sporting club member.
But you are not anybody. You are Karl Frenzel, the SS commandant. You ranked
third in the chain of command at the extermination camp of Sobibor. You were
the commandant of Lager 1. Do you remember me?
Karl Frenzel: Not exactly you were a small boy then
Thomas Blatt: I was fifteen years old. I survived because you made me your
shoeshine boy. Besides me nobody survived; not my father, not my mother, not
my brother, none of the two thousand Jews from my town, Izbica.
Karl Frenzel: That was terrible, just terrible... (more)
Images of the Holocaust at Klooga
www.holocaustresearchproject.org
The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
[Next] [Last] Burial pit for corspes of the victims of the Klooga camp
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Commando 1005, 1944
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Dr Elchanan Elkes chairman of the Kovno Judenrat
Letters to London
1943 - the chairman writes to his children about life in the Kovno ghetto
Dr Elchanan Elkes of the Kovno Judenrat
My beloved son and daughter!
I am writing these lines, my dear children, in the vale of tears of
Vilijampole, Kovno Ghetto, where we have been for over two years. We have now
heard that in a few days our fate is to be sealed. The Ghetto is to be
crushed and torn asunder.
Whether we are all to perish, or whether a few of us are to survive, is in
God’s hands, we fear that only those capable of slave l... (more)
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Hans Frank
Conversation with an American Officer 4 and 5 August 1945
*The following conversations took place between Hans Frank and an American
Army Officer on 4 and 5 August 1945
Hans Frank in captivity Nov. 24th, 1945
Frank; I was so stupid all these years. You know we are so guilty. Look here
I s... (more)