Plan your Visit To Yad Vashem
test

Sun-Thurs: 08:30-17:00
Fridays and holiday eves: 08:30-14:00
Saturday and Jewish holidays – Closed

Yad Vashem is open to the general public, free of charge. All visits to Yad Vashem must be reserved in advance.

  1. Home
  2. Remembrance
  3. Holocaust Remembrance Day Through the Years
  4. Torchlighters
  5. Sophie Engelsman

Sophie Engelsman

Sophie Engelsman lit one of six torches at the State Opening Ceremony of Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in 2005.

Share
Sophie Engelsman

Sophie Engelsman

Surviving the Holocaust: Sophie Engelsman's Story

Born in 1926, in Rotterdam, Holland. In 1943, the population of the hospital she worked in as a nurse was evacuated to Westerbork. Working as a slave laborer, she survived serious illness in Sobibor, Lublin, Trawniki, Katowice, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Raguhn. Liberated from Theresienstadt on the brink of death with typhus, Sophie was reunited with surviving family members, and emigrated to Israel in 1949. She and her husband have 4 sons, 21 grandchildren and 2 great-granddaughters.

The Netherlands2005