Selma Engel-Wijnberg
Holocaust survivor
Died when: 96 years 203 days (1158 months)Star Sign: Taurus
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Selma Engel-Wijnberg (born Saartje "Selme" Wijnberg; 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.In 2010 she was in the Netherlands to receive the governmental honour of Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.
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