Samuel Willenberg

Samuel Willenberg, nom de guerre Igo, was a Polish Holocaust survivor, artist, and writer. He was a Sonderkommando at the Treblinka extermination camp and participated in the unit's planned revolt in August 1943. While 300 escaped, about 79 were known to survive the war. Willenberg reached Warsaw where, 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.

16 February 1923

Born on the same birth day (16 February): Adolfo Azcuna • Ernst Haeckel • Gerhard Hanappi • Kim Jong Il • Longineu W. Parsons III • Natalie Angier • Ossian E. Mills • Shawne Williams

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