Engel, Selma, 1922-2018

LC control no.	no2015004986
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Engel, Selma, 1922-2018 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Engel-Wijnberg, Selma, 1922-2018 Engel Wynberg, Saartje, 1922-2018 Wijnberg, Saartje, 1922-2018 Wijnberg, Selma Engel-, 1922-2018 Wynberg, Saartje Engel, 1922-2018 Wynberg, Saartye, 1922-2018 Wynberg, Selma, 1922-2018
Associated country	Israel United States
Located	Zwolle (Netherlands) Israel Branford (Conn.)
Birth date	1922-05-15
Death date	2018-12-04
Place of birth	Groningen (Netherlands)
Place of death	East Haven (Conn.)
Field of activity	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Concentration camp escapes
Affiliation	Sobibór (Concentration camp)
Profession or occupation	Holocaust survivors Concentration camp inmates
Found in	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) US Holocaust Memorial Museum website, 13 January 2015 (Selma Wijnberg; Saartje Wijnberg) USC Shoah Foundation online, 13 January 2015 (Saartje Engel Wynberg: Saartye Wynberg - name at birth) Wikipedia, 13 January 2015 (Selma Engel-Wijnberg) 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)
Associated language	eng