The Glenwood Arts Theater will now screen “Big Sonia,” the film about local Holocaust survivor and tailor Sonia Warshawski, every Tuesday.
Screenings will take place at 5:15 p.m. every Tuesday at the movie theater (3707 W. 95th St., Overland Park, KS 66206). According to the film’s producer and director Leah Warshawski, who is also Sonia Warshawski’s granddaughter, Glenwood Arts will continue weekly screenings as long as more than 15 people attend each week.
Tickets are available at fineartsgroup.com/glenwood-arts. Group discounts are available for educators to bring students on field trips.
“This is almost unheard of for an independent film, so we’re thrilled that the Glenwood Arts loves this film so much,” Leah Warshawski said. “As filmmakers, it’s important for us to share our work in a theater with community… so this announcement is especially meaningful.”
“Big Sonia” follows Warshawki and her tailor shop, John’s Tailoring (which closed last year), exploring how Sonia’s background affects her, her family, and her ethos in the present. At age 15, Sonia watched her mother enter the gas chamber doors in the Majdanek death camp. She endured slave labor and the hells of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen. Upon the camp’s liberation, she was accidentally shot through her chest.
