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.
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Kazimierz LeskiAlso won Warsaw Uprising Cross
Henryk DobrzańskiAlso won Cross of Valour
Elmar MammadyarovAlso won Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Jas GawronskiAlso won Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Władysław BortnowskiAlso won Cross of Valour
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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.
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