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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.
A fines de abril y en agosto de 1944 todos los judíos –menos 60- fueron deportados desde Vittel en dos grupos, vía Drancy, a Auschwitz-Birkenau. Poco pudo hacer Sofka para ayudar a los deportados y fue una testigo conmovida de su partida. “Los polacos sabían perfectamente que significaba el tren.
On June 14, 1998, Yad Vashem recognized Sofka Skipwith as Righteous Among the Nations. The Russian princess who saved Jews while she was incarcerated in the Vittel camp in France, and was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1998.
23 de oct. de 2019 · Her students included famed actor Laurence Olivier and his wife. Sofka and Leo divorced amicably, and the next year she married British pilot Grey Skipwith. She had a third son in January 1939.
6 de oct. de 2020 · Gracias a sus perfectos conocimientos del inglés y francés, así como de taquigrafía, Sofka se convirtió en asistente personal del reconocido actor Sir Lawrence Olivier, como encargada de sus compromisos internacionales. Cuando estalló la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Sofka se trasladó varias veces a París para visitar a su madre.
After they divorced, she married Grey Skipwith and they had one son. Before the War, Sofka worked for the Old Vic theatre and for Laurence Olivier, who became a personal friend. At the start of the war, Sofka visited her mother in Paris.
27 de ene. de 2021 · 27 Jan 2021. Written by Afiyah Alim. Alumnae. Image: "Women of Valor" Stories of Women Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust www.yadvashem.org. Sofka Skipwith (1904-1994), writer, translator and political activist, attended Queen’s College, London in 1919. She was born into nobility and was sometimes nicknamed ‘The Red Princess’.
