Death of Treblinka Revolt Survivor Signals Post-Witness Era

The death of 93-year-old Samuel Willenberg marks the passing of the last known survivor of the daring revolt at Treblinka, the notorious death camp in occupied Poland that is perhaps the most vivid example of Nazi Germany’s attempt to destroy European Jewry.

Holocaust survivor Samuel Willenberg displays a map of Treblinka extermination camp during an interview with the Associated Press in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 31, 2010. Willenberg, the last survivor of Treblinka, the Nazi death camp where 875,000 people were killed, has died at 93. Willenberg was among a group of Jews who in 1943 set fire to the camp and headed to the woods. Hundreds fled, but most were killed by Nazi troops in the surrounding mine fields or captured by Polish villagers. AP Photo/Oded Balilty

MOSHAV UDIM, Israel—The death of 93-year-old Samuel Willenberg marks the passing of the last known survivor of the daring revolt at Treblinka, the notorious death camp in occupied Poland that is perhaps the most vivid example of Nazi Germany’s attempt to destroy European Jewry.

Holocaust survivor Samuel Willenberg at his studio in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 31, 2010. AP Photo/Oded Balilty