Nazi death camp escapee visits CANDLES

TERRE HAUTE, Ind (WTHI) - - A man who narrowly escaped one of Adolph Hitler's six WW II-era Nazi death camps marked his first-ever trip to the Wabash Valley this week.

But Thomas Blatt has been sharing his harrowing story, with listeners all over the world, the last roughly 50 years.

Blatt, who turns 86 this spring, lives in Santa Barbara, Ca. He was part of a Thursday evening screening of a movie made depicting the Holocaust:  Hitler's cruel and heartless execution of millions of Jews, and countless innocent people from other nationalities, in the early 1940s.

Blatt was a featured guest at Terre Haute's CANDLES Holocaust Museum where the public was invited to watch the movie, Escape from Sobibor.