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Sofka Skipwith

By 22kenskri

  • Sofka was born

    Sofka was born

  • Married second time

    Married second time

  • Third child born

    Third child born

  • Arrested by German Police

  • Sofka was sent to a detention camp, and released shortly

  • Husband, Grey Skipwith, Killed serving for Royal Air force

  • Sofka heard stories from Jews with forged passports, and was moved by their stories.

  • Sofka managed to insert into a toothpaste tube a list of names of the Jews, holders of the South American passports in the camp.

    Sofka managed to insert into a toothpaste tube a list of names of the Jews, holders of the South American passports in the camp.

  • At the end of April and in August 1944 all but 60 of the Jews were deported in two groups from Vittel via Drancy to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Sofka could do little to help the deported Jews and became a shocked witness to their departure from Vittel.

  • Started forging and creating fake documents to help Transport Jews out of country.

  • After the first deportation of the Polish Jews, Sofka and Madeleine used their contacts to the resistance movement to arrange getting a number of children out of the camp. They managed to save the life of a Jewish baby. The mother had been taken by police

  • Soifka wrote an autobiography called "Sofka: the autobiography of a princess"