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Thomas BlattLocal Man and Sobibor survivor testifying in Demjanjuk trial
When Thomas Toivi Blatt was a prisoner at Sobibor, assigned to sort clothes and destroy documents of fellow Jews after their corpses were incinerated, it was said that the only way out of the death camp would be "with the smoke, traveling with the wind."
But Blatt made it out alive in a mass escape, and 66 years later he is heading to Munich to testify at the trial of John Demjanjuk, the retired Ohio autoworker who is charged with being a Ukrainian guard at Sobibor and an accessory to the murder of 27,900 people killed there. He now lives in Santa Barbara and is a frequent visitor at the Jewish Federation. Read the articles

Demjanjuk Trial Adjourned until February after Stories of Horror
Survivors testify against accused Nazi death camp guard and former U.S. auto worker charged with 27,900 counts of accessory to murder 
The court heard testimony from two eyewitnesses this week in the trial of the 89-year-old Demjanjuk, accused of being a guard at the Sobibor death camp. Both witnesses were teenagers in 1943 when they were deported to the notorious extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. read the second article