Selma Engel-Wijnberg
Selma Engel-Wijnberg 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 honor of Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.
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Female
Date of Birth
May 15th, 1922
Age
101
Birth Place
Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Groningen
Date of Death
December 4th, 2018
Died Aged
96
Star Sign
Taurus
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