Sonia Borowik Golad collection
Extent and Medium
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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
- Document
- Letters.