Selma Engel-Wijnberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Selma Engel-Wijnberg

Holocaust extermination camp survivor; diarist, writer

Date of Birth: 15-May-1922

Place of Birth: Groningen, Netherlands

Date of Death: 04-Dec-2018

Profession: diarist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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 honor of Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.