Read the full article on Women You Should Know. Five years ago, when Caroline Kennedy was in the 8th grade, a guest speaker visited her Kansas City area school to share her extraordinary story. She could have never predicted the big impact this woman would have on her...
You know that saying, “I lived to tell the tale”? Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski, who was dragged out of her hiding place under some floorboards in her attic in the Międzyrzec ghetto at age 13, forced to shovel the remains of her people for use as fertilizer at...
“The story of Sonia’s life, lovingly told in this deeply emotional film, proves the resilience of the human spirit, and that love always wins over hate.” CLEVELAND, Ohio — The documentary “Big Sonia” opens as a quiet portrait of Sonia, an...
“The story feels very timely in its subject matter,” Mehlhaff said. “It calls attention to that part of history we would like to forget but shouldn’t. And it has a lot of heart.” Read...
Sonia Warshawski knows the exact moment when she decided to go public with her past as a survivor of Auschwitz. She was watching television and saw a group of skinhead Holocaust deniers spouting their line, and a voice in her head said, “This was the reason you...
Sure, Kurt Russell, Viggo Mortensen, Matthew McConaughey, Aaron Eckhart and Julia Louis-Dreyfus overcame the odds to become Hollywood stars. Sonia Warshawski overcame the Nazis. The featured subject of the documentary “Big Sonia” joins the aforementioned celebrities...
Some of us choose to record our family histories in books, photos, audio recordings or through other creative media. Our eldest daughter, Leah Warshawski (and husband Todd Soliday), opted for a more arduous challenge — a documentary film about her grandmother (and my...
