Sonia Orbuch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sonia Orbuch

Date of Birth: 24-May-1925

Place of Birth: Liuboml, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukraine

Date of Death: 30-Sep-2018

Profession: writer, educator, resistance fighter, autobiographer

Nationality: United States, Poland

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Sonia Shainwald Orbuch (born Sarah Shainwald, 24 May 1925 – 30 September 2018) was an American Holocaust educator.
During the Second World War she was a Jewish resistance fighter in eastern Poland. Orbuch hid in the forests of Poland with her family during the Second World War.
To survive, she was renamed Sonia by the Soviets, and she joined the Red Army and helped fight against the Germans.
After the war, she returned home, where she met her future husband.
After having a daughter in a refugee camp in Germany, the family eventually emigrated to the United States. She spent the rest of life in public engagement, speaking about her experiences and in 2009, published her autobiography, Here, There Are No Sarahs: A Woman's Courageous Fight Against the Nazis and Her Bittersweet Fulfillment of the American Dream.