Sonia Warshawski, known as “Big Sonia” and star of the award-winning documentary of the same name, recently celebrated her 97th birthday.
Warshawski grew up in Poland and was 17 when, in 1942, Nazis forced her and her family into the ghetto. She was sent to multiple concentration camps before the British liberation.
She met her husband, John, in a displaced persons camp, and the couple came to Kansas City in 1948. They owned John’s Tailoring at Metcalf South Mall.
