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.