Oral history interview with Sonya Schek
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Sandra Bendayan
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Sonya Schek on December 2, 1994 and December 20, 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in March 2001.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
People
- Sandra Bendayan
- Sonya Schek
- Schek, Sonya.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Sisters.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jews--Poland--Krynki.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Klimontów.
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Poland.
- Hiding places--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Jewish families--Lithuania.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Klimontów (Poland)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Krynki (Poland)
- Women--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History
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