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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.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.
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.
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. Princess Sophy Volkonsky (née Bobrinksy) was descended from Catherine the Great and as a young woman had been a doctor, one of the first female pilots in Russia and a rally car driver.
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 ...
27 de ene. de 2021 · Sofka Skipwith (1904-1994), writer, translator and political activist, attended Queen’s College, London in 1919. ... After the war, Laurence Olivier called her back to The Old Vic, where she worked as a playreader, Russian advisor, co-producer, costume advisor and more.
6 de oct. de 2020 · Sofka Skipwith, la princesa salvadora. Por sus acciones para ayudar a judíos durante el Holocausto, fue condecorada como Justa entre las Naciones. Hace 113 años, en octubre de 1907, nacía en San Petersburgo, Rusia, la Princesa Sofka Dolgorouky. Sus padres, la Condesa Sophy Bobrinska y el Príncipe Peter Dolgorouky, eran miembros de la alta ...
23 de ene. de 2024 · Among secretarial jobs that Sofka took in the 1930s included a six year stint as Laurence Olivier's personal assistant for six years. Sofka and Grey, who became an RAF navigator, lived in Cookham Dean, Berkshire, with their baby son, Patrick. Peter and Ian, her two older sons by her first marriage, were already living with their father.
