Samuel Willenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Samuel Willenberg

Polish survivor of Treblinka

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1923

Place of Birth: Częstochowa, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 19-Feb-2016

Profession: writer, military personnel, engineer, author, painter, sculptor, resistance fighter

Nationality: Poland, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Samuel Willenberg, nom de guerre Igo (16 February 1923 – 19 February 2016), was an Israeli Holocaust survivor, artist, and writer.
He was a Sonderkommando at the Treblinka extermination camp and participated in its prisoner revolt.
Before war's end, he took part in the Warsaw Uprising.
At his death, Willenberg was the last survivor of the August 1943 Treblinka prisoners' revolt. After the war he lived in Israel.
He received Poland's highest orders, including the Virtuti Militari and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit, awarded by President Lech Kaczynski. His memoir, Revolt in Treblinka, was published between 1986 and 1991 in Hebrew, Polish, and English.
He was a sculptor and painter.