FILE -- In this Oct. 31, 2010 file photo, Holocaust survivor Samuel Willenberg poses for a picture at his studio, during an interview with the Associated Press in Tel Aviv, Israel. Willenberg, the last... (Associated Press) 
 
 JERUSALEM (AP) — Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of Treblinka, the Nazi death camp in occupied Poland where 875,000 people were systematically murdered, has died in Israel at the age of 93. 
 
 Only 67 people are known to have survived the camp, fleeing in a revolt shortly before it was destroyed. 
 
 Treblinka holds a notorious place in history as perhaps the most vivid example of the "Final Solution," the Nazi plan to exterminate Europe's Jews. Unlike at other camps, where some Jews were assigned to forced labor before being killed, nearly all Jews brought to Treblinka were immediately gassed to death. 
 
 Only a select few — mostly young, strong men like Willenberg, who was 20 at the time— were spared from immediate death and assigned to maintenance work instead at the camp, located northeast of Warsaw. 
 
 On Aug. 2, 1943, a group of Jews stole some weapons, set fire to the camp and headed to the woods. Hundreds fled, but most were shot and killed by Nazi troops in the surrounding mine fields or captured by Polish villagers who returned them to Treblinka. 
 
 "The world cannot forget Treblinka," Willenberg told The Associated Press in a 2010 interview. 
 
 He described how he was shot in the leg as he climbed over bodies piled at the barbed wire fence and catapulted over. He kept running, ignoring dead friends in his path. He said his blue eyes and "non-Jewish" look allowed him to survive in the countryside before arriving in Warsaw and joining the Polish underground. 
 
 After the war Willenberg moved to Israel and became a surveyor for the Housing Ministry. Later in life, he took up sculpting to describe his experiences. His bronze statues depicted Jews standing on a train platform, a father removing his son's shoes before entering the gas chambers, a young girl having her head shaved, and prisoners removing bodies. 
 
 "I live two lives, one is here and now and the other is what happened there," Willenberg said. "It never leaves me. It stays in my head. It goes with me always." 
 
 His two sisters were killed at Treblinka. He described his survival as "chance, sheer chance." 
 
 The Nazis and their collaborators killed about 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. The death toll at Treblinka was second only to Auschwitz — a prison camp in southern Poland where more than a million people died in gas chambers or from starvation, disease and forced labor. 
 
 His daughter said he died on Friday. He is survived by a daughter and grandchildren. 

 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Treblinka survivor Samuel Willenberg recounts the Treblinka uprising in 2011 
 
 Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of Nazi Germany's Treblinka death camp in Poland, has died in Israel aged 93. 
 
 Only one of 67 people known to have survived the camp, he escaped by clambering over bodies piled up by a fence as the Nazis shot prisoners during a mass break-out. 
 
 In 2013, he returned to the site to mark 70 years since his escape. 
 
 About 870,000 people died in the gas chambers at Treblinka - more than anywhere else except Auschwitz. 
 
 Mr Willenberg urged the world never to forget Treblinka. 
 
 Image copyright AP Image caption Mr Willenberg escaped from Treblinka by clambering over the bodies of his dead friends 
 
 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mr Willenberg regularly returned to Treblinka to guide youth tour groups 
 
 In October 1942, aged 19, he was among 6,000 Jews from the Opatow ghetto who arrived by train at the camp. 
 
 They were told they were at a transit camp and had to undress and shower before being sent onward. In reality, the shower rooms were gas chambers. 
 
 But because he was a bricklayer he was assigned to manual labour duties and escaped an early death. His job was to sort through the belongings of the people sent to the gas chambers. 
 
 After the war Mr Willenberg - whose two sisters were killed at the camp - moved to Israel and became a surveyor. 
 
 "I live two lives, one is here and now and the other is what happened there,'' he said. `"It never leaves me. It stays in my head. It goes with me always." 
 
 Most of Treblinka's guards were never prosecuted for their part in the crimes there. 
 
 Treblinka's commandant, Franz Stangl, was sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1970 following his trial in the west German city of Duesseldorf. 
 
 Today nothing remains of the extermination camp apart from the ashes of the mostly Jewish men, women and children murdered there. 

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– The last survivor of the Nazi death camp Treblinka—which systematically murdered 875,000 people during World War II, a gruesome toll eclipsed only by Auschwitz—died Friday at his home in Israel at the age of 93. Samuel Willenberg, born in Poland in 1923, was a physically fit bricklayer at the time of his arrival at Treblinka and was sent to work instead of immediately gassed like most prisoners, reports the BBC. He said it was "chance, sheer chance" that on Aug. 2, 1943, shortly before the camp was destroyed, he managed to escape during a mass revolt, reports the AP. The then-20-year-old had to climb over bodies to mount a fence and then keep running even as friends were shot alongside him. He was one of just 67 people known to have survived Treblinka. Willenberg credits his blue eyes and "non-Jewish" looks with his ability to evade capture in the following weeks as he made his way back to Poland and joined the uprising there (his mother was an Orthodox Christian but converted to Judaism, notes Haaretz). Both his sisters were killed at the camp, and he's survived by a daughter and grandchildren. Eventually Willenberg settled down in Israel and worked as a surveyor, and he told the AP in 2010: "I live two lives, one is here and now and the other is what happened there. It never leaves me. It stays in my head. It goes with me always." He regularly visited the area to guide youth tour groups and said, "The world cannot forget Treblinka." (The Nazis tried to destroy evidence of Treblinka in 1943, but archaeologists uncovered some of its secrets.)