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Sofka Skipwith (née Sophia Dolgorouky le 23 octobre 1907 [1] et morte le 26 février 1994 [2]) est une princesse russe. Après avoir travaillé pour Laurence Olivier et avoir été internée par les nazis en France pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale , elle œuvre à la protection des Juifs.
Sofka Skipwith (born Sophia Dolgorukova; 23 October 1907 – 26 February 1994) was a Russian princess, who after working for Laurence Olivier and being interned by the Nazis in France in World War II, worked to save Jews from the Holocaust.She was honoured for her efforts by both the British government and by Israel, where she has been named one of the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
My first interest was in the Sir Laurence Olivier connection which was referred to in one of his biographies. Unexpectedly, I have found that the Skipwith book is very moving and a goldmine of anecdotal history lessons rather than just another "I was a former Princess in Old Russia before the Revolution."
They had two sons, Peter and Ian. In 1937 Sofka divorced her husband and married Grey Skipwith, an Englishman, who was killed in 1942 on active service with the Royal Air Force. Their son, Patrick, was born in 1939. When the French army was defeated in June 1940, Sofka was in Paris; she was arrested by the Germans in November 1940, together ...
Tenían dos hijos, Peter e Ian. En 1937 Sofka se divorció de su marido y contrajo matrimonio con Grey Skipwith, un inglés, que murió en 1942 durante su servicio activo en la Real Fuerza Aérea británica. El hijo de ambos, Patrick, había nacido en 1939. Cuando el ejército francés cayó derrotado en 1940 Sofka estaba en París.
Sofka Skipwith arbeitete vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg als Assistentin des Schauspielers Laurence Olivier. Trotz des Kriegsausbruchs 1939 reiste sie in der Zeit des Drôle de guerre mehrfach und auch noch im April 1940 zu ihrer Mutter und ihrem Stiefvater nach Paris , konnte aber im Juni nach der deutschen Eroberung Frankreichs nicht mehr nach England zurückkehren.
21 de dic. de 2010 · In London she married in 1932, had two sons, divorced in 1937, remarried and had a third son. Sofka divorced her first, émigré, husband, Leo Zinovieff, so as to be with Grey Skipwith, who had originally been her pupil for Russian lessons. A boyishly handsome, intelligent 23-year-old, Grey had hoped to join the Foreign Office after Cambridge ...
