# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-willenberg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:14:18.600Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-willenberg"
name: "Samuel Willenberg"
slug: "samuel-willenberg"
description: "Samuel Willenberg, nom de guerre Igo, was a Polish-born Jewish 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."
tagline: "Polish-born sculptor and Holocaust survivor, participant at the revolt and escape at Treblinka extermination cap (1923-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_Willenberg_70th_anniversary_of_Treblinka_revolt_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1923-02-16"
deathDate: "2016-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.448275862068966
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump