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  1. Sonia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia G., who was born in Poland in 1924. She recalls a sheltered childhood in an affluent home; her father wanting to emigrate but her mother's reluctance to leave her family; German occupation in 1939; her uncle being beaten to death by German soldiers; Czech Jews and those from surrounding towns being relocated to their town; ghettoization; her mother's illness; omnipresent fear; being rounded-up with her father in May 1943 (her mother and sister were hiding); guards brutally murdering crying babies en route to the trains; deportation with her father and cousin to ...

  2. Sonia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape of Sonia G., who was born in ?ocho?w, Poland in 1912, one of ten children. She recalls working in Warsaw starting at age fifteen; moving to a hakhsharat from 1932 to 1933 to prepare for immigration to Palestine; increasing antisemitism; returning to ?ocho?w; emigrating to Brussels in 1938 (she never saw her family again); joining a Jewish socialist organization; a mock marriage to obtain Belgian citizenship; joining the Resistance; arrest; incarceration at Malines; deportation to Birkenau; useless slave labor; transfer to Canada Kommando; slashing clothing she sorted; close bonds ...

  3. Sonia H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia H., who was born in Oleye?vo-Korole?vka, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1933. She remembers cordial relations with non-Jews; Soviet occupation; her father hiding to avoid deportation to Siberia; Hungarian, then German invasion in 1941; hiding in bunkers in her grandmother's house; her paternal grandparents being caught in a round-up; moving to Bi?lche to hide in a grotto; her mother and sister being caught; their release after her father bribed officials; hiding in her father's friend's barn, a forest, then another grotto beginning in May 1943; local peasants pro...

  4. Sonia Henie and Cecilia Colledge iceskate at Winter Olympic games in Berlin

    German intertitles. Sonja Henie (Norway) and Cecilia Colledge (Great Britain) skating at the 1936 winter Olympics in Berlin. The last shot shows an Olympic flag waving in the wind.

  5. Sonia M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia M., who was born in Dolginovo, Poland, near Vilna. Mrs. M. describes working in a labor camp near her town after the war's outbreak; the slaughter of one thousand people in her town in 1942; and a second massacre, in which her mother was killed. She recalls life in the town's ghetto; her and her father's escape; and their joining partisans hiding in the woods. She recounts scouting enemy movements for the partisans; liberation in 1944 by the Russians; and her return home, where she found only one surviving sibling of four. Mrs. M. relates her psychosomatic respo...

  6. Sonia Manes photograph collection

    Two photographs: one of a woman and a man in uniform, the other of a man in uniform with the following inscription on the verso: "na pamiątkę dla Henka Zasyła Adam Włoszczowa 19.IV.45"

  7. Sonia Nusenbaum collection

    Collection illustrating the post-war experiences of Henia Nusenbaum, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1915 and her daughter Sonia Nusenbaum, born in Otwock, Poland on January 1, 1944 [while her parents, Moniek and Henia, were in hiding after having fled the Warsaw Ghetto]. The collection includes postwar attestations that Sonia was born in hiding and therefore did not receive a birth certificate, materials in preparation for immigration in 1951 to the United States and naturalization paperwork. Also included are photographs of postwar life of Henia and Sonia in displaced persons camps including Ba...

  8. Sonia P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia P., who was born in Paneve?z?ys, Lithuania in 1925. She recalls her Orthodox family background; attending Hebrew day school; helping in the family store in Troskunai; Soviet occupation; living with her brother while learning bookkeeping in Kovno; German occupation; learning her family perished in a mass murder; ghettoization; her brother's murder; forced labor at the airport; working two shifts to enable her sister-in-law to care for her niece; selections and killings; arranging, with others, for her niece to be hidden by non-Jews; forced labor with her sister-i...

  9. Sonia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia R., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1929 of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father. She describes her father's anti-Nazi activities; Gestapo harassment; emigration to Italy, then France, in January 1933 because of her father's politics; her mother's art work; expulsion from France nine months later; her father's return to Germany and her mother's refusal, leading to their divorce; moving with her mother to San Remo; her third sibling's birth; receiving government orders in October 1939 to leave because they were foreigners; a German consular official helpin...

  10. Sonia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia R., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recounts her parents' divorce when she was three; living with her father; the painting of Stars of David on his shop windows in 1935; having to attend a Jewish school (the Goldschmidt School); participating in Zionist organizations; her father's harassment during a business trip; visits to family members in Poland and England who doubted that the Nazis represented a real danger; attending the 1936 Olympics; her father's marriage in 1937 in New York to an American for emigration purposes; receiving a United States ...

  11. Sonia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia S., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1925, the third of five children. She recalls German invasion; incarceration with her family in the Seventh Fort; a mass killing including her father; transfer with her mother and siblings to the Ninth Fort; release; ghettoization with her younger siblings and mother; smuggling food; hiding her siblings; forced labor; their deportation to an Estonian labor camp; deportation to Auschwitz; a prisoner giving her life-saving advice; learning her mother and siblings had been gassed; recognizing one of her older brothers (she h...

  12. Sonia Shoked collection

    Contains materials donated by Sonia Shoked documenting her family's experiences during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  13. Sonia W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia W., who was born in 1928 in Krako?w, Poland. She recalls a wonderful childhood; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization in 1941; avoiding the children's deportation due to a document obtained by her friend's father which falsified her age as over fourteen; attending clandestine schools; selling family possessions for food; a round-up in which her mother was taken; transfer to P?aszo?w in March 1943; her sister's frequent help, which saved her life many times; random killings by the camp commander Amon Goeth; the public hanging of a boy who sang ...

  14. Sonia W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia W., who was born in Mie?dzyrzec Podlaski, Poland in 1925, one of three children. She recalls attending public school; German invasion; forced labor; hiding with her family during deportations; ghettoization; her brother placing her sister in hiding with a non-Jew; her father and brother hiding with another non-Jew; their betrayal and execution; deportation with her mother to Majdanek; public hangings of escapees; separation from her mother (she never saw her again) when she was transferred to Auschwitz/Birkenau; hiding during selections; a beating when their wor...

  15. Sonja Abelson collection

    Contains black and white photo prints and documents (including birth, marriage, and naturalization certificates, etc.) Some of the documents pertain to the escape of parents of the donor from the Nazi Germany in the mid 1930s. The collection also contains correspondence through ICRC with Mr. and Mrs. Felix Philippson, grandparents of the donor.

  16. Sonja Alaimo collection

    Contains a manuscript, unpublished, written by Sonja Alaimo, describing her experiences fleeing Novi Sad in Yugoslavia and being interned on the island of Korcula under Italian occupation. Born Sofia Backman in 1927 to Jakob and Maria Backman, Sonia and her mother fled to Korcula in 1941. Sonia’s father, Jakob, was interned until late 1941 and then also came to Korcula. In 1943, they were then sent to Italy where the family remained until they came to New York in 1947.

  17. Sonja B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonja B., who was born in Pozarevac, Serbia in 1922, one of seven children. She recalls one brother's death; moving to Belgrade about 1929; her brothers' illegal communist activities; their escapes due to neighbors' warnings that police were coming; active participation with her sisters in Hashomer Hatzair; destruction of their home in the German bombardment on April 6, 1941; briefly fleeing; returning and staying with neighbors; orders to register as Jews; her brothers refusing to do so; registering with her mother and sisters; partisans providing false papers and hi...

  18. Sonja DuBois collection

    Collection of objects and photographs relating to Sonja DuBois' experiences as a hidden child in the Netherlands. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  19. Sonja Kirschener collection

    Consists of 41 photographs, mainly pre-war, of the Kaiser family in Germany, as well as wartime and post-war photographs taken after the family fled to Shanghai, China. Also includes three copies of the Shanghai Jewish school newspaper, "The Oracle," 1947.

  20. Sonja Lange: work permit

    Work permit for the Jewess, Sonja Lange, issued by the balloon works department of the Zeppelin Airship Company, Berlin,German