Unaccompanied child

Registration No.

G 11368343 copy 1 (✓) 2 3 M F(x) MARITAL STATUS Sing.(x) Mar. Wid. Div.

SUPPLEMENTARY RECORD – FACE SHEET

CHILD

Evidence of Verification

Date

Family or Surname

HOLZ

Given or Christian Names

Sonja

Other Names Used

none

Birthdate Day Month Year. As Verified: Day Month Year

8 July 1929

Birthplace Town Province Country

Birthplace As Verified: Town Province Country

Vilna Poland

Nationality Claimed

Polish Jew

Nationality Verified

Adress in Country of Origin Prior to Displacement

Vilna, Kalvariska Ul. 26/II , Poland

Date of Displacement

June 1942

Present location of Child including Name of Family, Center or institution, Person in Charge, Adtess, Date arrived at this location.

D.P. Camp Wolfratshausen, Team 106. Dir. Mr. Cohen. November 1945.

Language usually spoken

Yiddish, Polish, Hebrew

Other languages used

Religion

Jewish

Occupation

Dressmaker-apprentice

FATHER

FAMILY

Family Name

HOLZ

First Middle

Chona

Birthdate

1906

Nationality

Polish Jewy

Last known address

same as child.

Date last heard fromy

June 1942

Permanent address

same as child.

Occupation

salesman

Place of Employment

Clothing store, Vilna

MOTHER

Maiden Name

FISCHER

Family Name

HOLZ

First

Chana

Middle

Birthdate

1906

Nationality

Polish Jew

Last known address

same as child

Date last heard from

June 1942.

Permanent address

same as child.

Occupation

Dressmaker, own shop.

Place of Employment

Other members of the immediate family and relatives. List for each the Name, Age, Relationship, Last known address, Former permanent address, Occupation and Employment, if known. (Continue on reverse side of page as necessary.)

no relatives.

Face Sheet prepared by: Victor Roninson

Team:

567

Date: 24 April 1946.

Information obtained from:

Holz, Sonja

First displacement

June 1942 – brought with family into Ghetto.

Separation from Family

Mother and younger brother (about six yrs. old) killed in ghetto.

Older brother (about eighteen yrs of age) shot in ghetto, because he did not wear the yellow star.

Her father has been taken away and she never saw him again. (All this happened in June 1942 in the ghetto of Wolomin).

Moves and changes

Summer 1943 - Taken by Germans to Riga (Latvia);

Worked there for a farmer, living in the camp of Kaiserwald (Latvia), submitted to all atrocities of German SS-men and women.

Then brought to Strassenhof (Latvia), where she worked in an ammunition Factory.

Summer 1944 - Stutthof (C. C. near Danzig).

Winter 1944-1945-1945 - walking to Kalkau, as evacuated from Stutthof.

March 1945 - liberated by Russian troops.

Sick with Typhus, stays at the house of a farmer, being taken care of by a Russian physician. Then goes to Byalistok (Poland) seeking family, without success.

12 June 1945 - Bielsk (Poland), Children's home of the Jewish Central Committee at Warsaw.

August 1945 - Zabrza (Slonsk), Poland: Kibutz Tel Iczhak.

November 1945 - D.P. Camp Föhrenwald, Wolfratshausen.

Language

Yiddish, Polish, Hebrew.

Documents

D.P. 1 – Card (see reg. No.).

School record

Finished the fifth grade grammar school.

She is now a dressmaker apprentice in this camp.

She also attends grammar school courses in the camp.

Information re family.

Her father was a salesman in a clothing store at Vilna.

Her mother was a dressmaker on her own.

They were three children at home.