Sobibor Interviews 1983-1984, interview 05, Kurt Thomas

Identifier
urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-ilvq-oa
Language of Description
Dutch
Dates
1 Jan 1942 - 31 Dec 1945, 1 Jan 1983 - 31 Dec 1984, 2 Nov 2009, 29 Jun 2012
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Dutch
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  • Jules Schelvis

Scope and Content

Interview with Kurt Thomas (Brno 11 April 1914). Thomas was taken to Sobibor via the ghetto of Theresienstadt. In the sorting barracks he had to sort clothes and belongings of victims who had been gassed. As an orderly he later managed to save the lives of several prisoners by letting them rest longer than allowed. When he had climbed across the fence during the uprising he refused to hurry: "I don't have to run anymore, I am a free man". Born Kurt Ticho, he attended grammar school in his hometown. He served as a telegraph operator in the Czech army. After the war he saw to it that SS Frenzel was arrested in Berlin. Kurt Thomas died on 8 June 2009 in Columbus, Ohio.

Conditions Governing Access

OPEN_ACCESS

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

video/mp4

MP4

Finding Aids

Subjects

Places

  • Czech Republic
  • Poland
  • Sobibor
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