Sonia Shoked papers
Contains an autograph book kept by the donor during her recuperation in Forsbacka, Sweden after her release from the Ravensbrück concentration camp in April 1945; photographs depicting Sonia Wajngarten in the boarding school in Forsbacka, Sweden, dated 1945-1946. Also includes letters, photographs, and a postcard related to the experieces of Kurt Tschmul [later Chaim Shoked] (donor's late husband) who together with his younger brother Siegfried Sigi, left Vienna on the Kindertransport; their parents, Anna and Binem Tschmul, managed to leave Vienna in April 1939 for Shanghai, and the family was reunited in Israel in 1949.
- Genre/Form
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Letters.
Postcards.
Photographs.
Autograph books.
- Extent
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2 folders
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sonia Wajngarten Shoked
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Record last modified: 2022-07-28 21:56:03
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Also in 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.
Gotlieb family photographs collection
Document
Collection of 14 photographs of the Gottlieb family (donor's maternal family). Includes images of Cirl and Josef Gottlieb (donor's maternal grandparents) in Brzeziny, Poland; and Majer, Israel, Sara, and Ezriel Gottlieb (siblings of Rywa Gottlieb [donor's mother]).
