1. Selma Engel-Wijnberg escaped during the 1943 uprising, hid in Poland, and survived the war.
10 Facts About Selma Engel-Wijnberg
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Selma Engel-Wijnberg returned to Europe again only to testify against the war criminals of Sobibor.
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Selma Engel-Wijnberg was raised in Zwolle, where her parents owned and managed the Hotel Wijnberg.
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Selma Engel-Wijnberg was rounded up by Nazi forces on 18 December 1942.
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Selma Engel-Wijnberg survived the selection at arrival, and was assigned to the Arbeitshaftlinge unit in Lager II.
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Selma Engel-Wijnberg helped her survive; for instance, when she contracted typhus and was weakened, he carried her to the latrines and helped her rest when the guards weren't looking.
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Selma Engel-Wijnberg provided Chaim with a knife, with which he stabbed a Nazi guard, and the couple fled under gunfire through the main gate and into the forest.
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Selma Engel-Wijnberg went to the kitchen, and asked for milk.
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The police of Zwolle decided that Selma Engel-Wijnberg, by marrying Engel, a Pole, had lost her citizenship and become a Polish citizen.
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Selma Engel-Wijnberg died in Westport, Connecticut, on 4 December 2018 at the age of 96.