Sonia Borowik Golad collection

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.