Selma Engel-Wijnberg (born Saartje "Selme" Wijnberg;[1][2] 15 May 1922 – 4 December 2018) was one of only two Dutch Jewish Holocaust survivors of the Sobibor extermination camp.

There she was forced to sort the clothes of gas chamber victims so that they could be sent to German civilians disguised as charitable donations.

[8] In the sorting barracks Wijnberg met her future husband, Chaim Engel (10 January 1916 – 4 July 2003), a Polish Jew from Brudzew,[9][10] who was six years her senior.

[9] She provided Chaim with a knife, with which he stabbed a Nazi guard, and the couple fled under gunfire through the main gate and into the forest.

[9][12] They found shelter with two Polish farmers, named Adam and Stefka, a married couple, whom they paid for hiding them.

[11] They survived for nine months in a barn's hayloft until the retreat of Nazi Germany from occupied Poland in July 1944 during Operation Bagration, the Red Army counter-offensive.

[12] From Marseille, the couple travelled north by train to Zwolle and returned to Selma's parents' home, Hotel Wijnberg, in the Netherlands.

[15] The police of Zwolle decided that Selma, by marrying Engel, a Pole, had lost her citizenship and become a Polish citizen.

Officials decided against interning the Engels in a displaced persons camp for foreigners near Valkenswaard because the holding center was full, and Wijnberg was a Dutch native.

[3] On 12 April 2010, Minister Ab Klink apologised to Engel-Wijnberg for her treatment after the war, on behalf of the Dutch government, during the Westerbork Camp remembrance ceremony.