Engel, Selma, 1922-2018

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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
(lcsh) Concentration camp escapes

found: US Holocaust Memorial Museum catalog, 13 January 2015(Selma Engel (née Wynberg) was born in Groningen, Netherlands in 1922; was an inmate in Westerbork and Sobibór concentration camps; met her future husband Chaim Engel in Sobibór; escaped with Chaim from Sobibór during the uprising; immigrated to Israel in 1951 and to the United States in 1957)

found: US Holocaust Memorial Museum website, 13 January 2015(Selma Wijnberg; Saartje Wijnberg)

found: USC Shoah Foundation online, 13 January 2015(Saartje Engel Wynberg: Saartye Wynberg - name at birth)

found: New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 10, 2018(in obituary published Dec. 7: Selma Wynberg Engel; b. Saartje Wijnberg, May 15, 1922, Groningen, the Netherlands; grew up in Zwolle; m. Chaim Engel, 1945 (d. 2003); moved to Israel in 1951 and to the United States in 1957; Anglicized her name when she moved to the U.S.; lived in Branford, Conn.; d. Tuesday [Dec. 4, 2018], East Haven, Conn., aged 96; escaped Sobibor, a Nazi extermination camp, after a prisoner uprising and was among the first to tell the world about the camp's existence)