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Willenberg, Samuel

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Personal name headingWillenberg, Samuel
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Variant(s)Ṿilenberg, Shemuʼel
ווילנברג, שמואל
LocatedTel Aviv (Israel)
Birth date1923
Death date2016-02-19
Place of birthCzęstochowa (Poland)
Place of deathIsrael
AffiliationTreblinka (Concentration camp)
Israel. Miśrad ha-shikun
Profession or occupationSurveyors
Sculptors
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inHis Mered bi-Ṭreblinḳah, 1986: t.p. (Shemuʼel Ṿilenberg) t.p. verso (Samuel Willenberg [in rom.])
Mered bi-Ṭreblinḳah, 2006: t.p. (Shemuʼel Ṿilenberg) p. 4 of cover (b. 1923 in Tsansṭoḥov, Poland)
Miami herald WWW site, viewed Feb. 24, 2016 (in obituary dated Feb. 20, 2016: Samuel Willenberg, 93, died Friday [Feb. 19, 2016] in Israel; last known living survivor of the Treblinka death camp; Willenberg and his family had lived in Czestochowa, Poland, when the Germans marched into their country in 1939; had dedicated his twilight years to telling his story; took parties of Israeli school students to Treblinka; in 2014, Alan Tomlinson produced a feature-length movie, Treblinka's Last Witness, which offered a first-hand account by the last known living survivor; after the war Willenberg moved to Israel and became a surveyor for the Housing Ministry; later in life, he took up sculpting to describe his experiences; lived in Tel Aviv)
LC database, Feb. 25, 2016 (hdg.: Willenberg, Samuel; usage: Samuel Willenberg, Shemuʼel Ṿilenberg; associated resources in Polish or translated ultimately from Polish)
Associated languagepol