Samuel Willenberg

Samuel Willenberg, nom de guerre Igo, (1923 –2016) was a Polish-Jewish prisoner and Sonderkommando in the Treblinka extermination camp who participated in its perilous prisoner revolt. He took part in the Warsaw Uprising before the war's end.

Willenberg was the last survivor of the August 1943 Treblinka prisoners’ revolt upon his death. After the war he lived in Israel. He received the highest of Poland's orders including Virtuti Militari and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit awarded by President Lech Kaczyński.

His memoir, titled Revolt in Treblinka, was published in Hebrew, Polish and English between 1986 and 1991. He was a sculptor and painter.

Willenberg with his Treblinka studies at the Treblinka Museum permanent exhibition.