Only Dutch woman to survive Sobibor camp is knighted
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Add as a favourite source on Google Add DutchNews as a favourite source on GoogleThe only Dutch woman to survive the Sobibor concentration camp in Poland during World War II has been knighted during a ceremony to mark 65 years since the liberation of the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.
Selma Engel-Wijnberg, 87, was almost deported on her arrival back from Sobibor because she had married a Polish national. She emigrated to Israel and later to the US.
During the ceremony, health minister Ab Klink apologised for Engel-Wijnberg’s treatment after the war. ‘You and your husband were seriously hurt,’ Kink said. ‘But as much as we would like, we cannot turn back the clock.’
For more on her story, click here and here
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