Sonia weitz biography

  • Biographical / Historical.
  • Sonia Schreiber Weitz, a Holocaust survivor, is an author who wrote a poetic memoir about her experiences during the Holocaust.
  • Addressing Concord eighth grade students at the Peabody Forum, marking the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945.

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    Sonia Schreiber Weitz Papers

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     Collection

    Identifier: M.6

    Scope and Contents

    This collection spans much of Sonia Weitz’s life, beginning with family photos taken prior to World War II and ending with news coverage of her death in 2010. The collection contains folders of correspondence, anställda documents, news coverage, and poems and edited manuscripts. Also included in the collection are a group of Sonia’s personal photo albums, photos taken during her time at Displaced Persons camps, and speaking engagements she attended later in life. Also included are framed photos belonging to Sonia. Items of interest in the collection include handwritten poems, some in the original Polish; Sonia’s last poem, written shortly before her death in 2010; postcards commemorating the first anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen; and dozens of Yad Vashem testimony documents submitted by Sonia.

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    Overview

    Interviewee
    Sonia Weitz

    Date
    interview:  1987 August 12

    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ina R. Friedman

    Physical Details

    Extent
    1 sound cassette : analog.

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.

    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Donor retains copyright. Third party use requests must be submitted to the donor.

    Copyright Holder
    Ina R. Friedman

    Keywords & Subjects

    Geographic Name
    Kraków (Poland)

    Administrative Notes

    Legal Status
    Permanent Collection

    Provenance
    Ina R. Friedman donated her oral history interviews to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Aug. 8, 2005. Ms. Friedman fryst vatten the author of "Escape or Die," "Flying Against the Wind," and "Other Victims," which explore the experiences of Jewish and non-Jewish survivo

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    Sonia Weitz
    Survivor of Auschwitz Concentration Camp


    Addressing Concord eighth grade students at the Peabody Forum,
    marking the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945

    Interviewed January 18, 1995

    Concord Oral History Program
    Renee Garrelick, Interviewer.

     

    When Sonia was born, her Dad planted a tree outside their apartment in Krakow.  Four years ago I had the privilege of visiting that courtyard and touching the leaves of that tree as it blooms today.  Her father, I’m sure, planted that tree as a symbol of life.  There has been no one as a symbol of life and a spirit that really touches all of us as Sonia. - Bill Miller, Social Studies Teacher, Concord Middle School. 

    As a survivor of the Holocaust, I come from another world.  I come from a universe when my people were condemned to torture, to death for no other reason but because they were Jewish, even the children.  I’m sure you know

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