Historical FigureFemale
Selma Engel-Wijnberg
1922 – 2018
About this person
Wikipedia SummarySelma 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 emigrated 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.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
May 15, 1922
Groningen
Date of death
December 4, 2018
East Haven
Citizenship
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Occupations & fields
diarist
Awards & honours
Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau
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