Holocaust Survivor

PHOTO COURTESY/Big Sonia Screenings

 

Monday for us all is the time to wake up to something boring or to our regular routine instead this Monday we woke up to something amazing, a beautiful opportunity occurred at the Alumni Hall. April 9th at 6:15 p.m. marked the day a very important person in history came to Park University. This individual was from a time where the world was thrown into war and survived to this day. Her name was Sonia Warshawski, she’s a holocaust survivor whose still alive. Some of you may not know what this tragic event is, so I will endow you with a standard definition of what the holocaust is. The holocaust also was known as the “Shoah” was a genocide during World War 2 which Nazi Germany systematically murdered 6 million European Jews. To really sum up the time humanity was in could be described in three words like the dark term. Cataclysm, disaster, and catastrophe. Those words described parts of her past but she took that and brought something different to the table. A momentous move across the nation incorporating music and an act put together to portray her story and a lesson from her loss and extreme pain throughout the years of being a survivor from one of the most world’s deadliest epidemics. The play that took place when she was 15 as she watched her mother taken behind gas chamber doors and shot through her chest on liberation day. A fate yet to be sealed from a bullet of hate that could have burned the bridges of passing on her culture to our own. This play happens every year 2 days before the holocaust remembrance day. Her play is organized by her family and the story revolves around an elderly woman like herself behind a wheel she can’t even peek over to get to work only to support her late husbands at the local tailor shop. Hopefully, you can still get some “Soniasm”

PHOTO COURTESY/wskfarchportfolio(Alumnia Hall)