Sonia Borowik Golad collection

Identifier
irn624215
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2019.295.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joyce Hess

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Joyce Hess, daughter of Sonia Borowik Gilad.

Scope and Content

Collection documenting the experiences of Sonia Borowik, born February 15, 1924 in Vilna, Poland [present-day Lithuania] Sonia, deported with her mother Estera Drujan Borowik and sister Vera Borowik Klott to Stutthof concentration camp from the Vilna Ghetto. Her father and brother, both deported did not survive. Her mother died in Stutthof and Sonia and Vera were deported to additional camps and liberated in Neuengamme concentration camp in April 1945. She was sent to Sweden to recuperate her sister in the Heidenheim displaced persons camp. They remained there until immigrating to the United States in 1947.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Ms. Joyce Hess

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.