Sonia Shoked papers

Identifier
irn43560
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.365.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn43560

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sonia Wajngarten Shoked

Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Crown Family.

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Sonia Shoked. An accretion of additional materials was donated by Sonia Shoked in 2013.

Scope and Content

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.

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors--Sweden.
  • Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--England.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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