Selma Engel-Wijnberg

Selma Engel-Wijnberg
Engel-Wijnberg in 2010
Born
Saartje (Selme) Wijnberg

(1922-05-15)15 May 1922
Groningen, Netherlands
Died4 December 2018(2018-12-04) (aged 96)
Branford, Connecticut, US
Spouse
Chaim Engel
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(m. 1945; died 2003)​
Children3
AwardsKnight of the Order of Oranje-Nassau

Selma Engel-Wijnberg (born Saartje "Selme" Wijnberg;[1][2] 15 May 1922 – 4 December 2018) was one of only two Dutch Jewish Holocaust survivors of the Sobibor extermination camp. She escaped during the 1943 uprising, hid in Poland, and survived the war. Engel-Wijnberg immigrated to the United States from Israel with her family in 1957, settling in Branford, Connecticut. She returned to Europe again only to testify against the war criminals of Sobibor.[3] In 2010 she was in the Netherlands to receive the governmental honour of Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.

  1. ^ Holocaust Encyclopedia. "Selma Wijnberg". Profile. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  2. ^ Ann Markham Walsh; Saartje (Selme) Wijnberg Engel (2012). Dancing Through Darkness: The Inspiring Story of Nazi Death Camp Survivors, Chaim and Selma Engel. Dunham Books. ISBN 978-0985532888.
  3. ^ Liempt 2010, p. 120-21.