“Big Sonia” Free Community Film Screening | San Rafael
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Smith Rafael Film Center | 1118 4th Street, San Rafael, CA 94901
Event Details
Submitted by the Event Organizer
Come and watch the community screening of “Big Sonia”, a film by Leah Warshawski on February 26, 2018.
Following the screening, there will also be a discussion and Q&A with Morrie Warshawski, eldest son of Sonia who appears in the film.
About “Big Sonia”
Standing tall at 4’8″, Sonia is one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in Kansas City and one of the only survivors there who speaks publicly about her wartime experience. Sonia’s enormous personality and fragile frame mask the horrors she endured.
At 15 she watched her mother disappear behind gas chamber doors. Sonia’s teenage years were a blur of concentration camps and death marches. On liberation day, she was accidentally shot through the chest, yet again miraculously survived. Sonia is the ultimate survivor, a bridge between cultures and generations. Her story must never be forgotten.
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Cost: FREE*