BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20180128T030000Z DTEND:20180128T043000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Documentary Film: "Big Sonia" DESCRIPTION:Gesa Power House Theatre will screen the award-winning documentary film "Big Sonia" on International Holocaust Remembrance Day\, Saturday\, January 27\, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nStanding tall at 4'8 \, Sonia is one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in Kansas City and one of the only survivors there who speaks publicly about her wartime experience. Sonia's enormous personality and fragile frame mask the horrors she endured. At 15 she watched her mother disappear behind gas chamber doors. Sonia's teenage years were a blur of concentration camps and death marches. On liberation day\, she was accidentally shot through the chest\, yet again miraculously survived. Sonia is the ultimate survivor\, a bridge between cultures and generations. \n\n\n\nFor years\, Sonia Warshawski (91) has been an inspirational public speaker at schools and prisons\, where her stories of surviving the Holocaust as a teenager have inspired countless people who once felt their own traumas would leave them broken forever. But when Sonia is served an eviction notice for her iconic tailor shop (in a dead mall)\, she's confronted with an agonizing decision: either open up a new shop\, or retire. Ironically\, Sonia's shop is the last open business in an otherwise desolate Kansas City mall\, but it contains enough color and liveliness to make up for the entire empty complex. For a woman who admits she stays busy "to keep the dark parts away"\, facing retirement dredges up fears she'd long forgot she had\, and her horrific past resurfaces.\n\n\n\n"Big Sonia" explores what it means to be a survivor and how inter-generational trauma affects families and generations. \n\n\n\nReserved seating tickets ($15 Adults\, $10 Students) are available online or by calling the box office at 509-529-6500. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Gesa Power House Theatre will screen the award-winning documentary film "\;Big Sonia"\; on International Holocaust Remembrance Day\, Saturday\, January 27\, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.
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\nStanding tall at 4&rsquo\;8&Prime\;\, Sonia is one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in Kansas City and one of the only survivors there who speaks publicly about her wartime experience. Sonia&rsquo\;s enormous personality and fragile frame mask the horrors she endured. At 15 she watched her mother disappear behind gas chamber doors. Sonia&rsquo\;s teenage years were a blur of concentration camps and death marches. On liberation day\, she was accidentally shot through the chest\, yet again miraculously survived. Sonia is the ultimate survivor\, a bridge between cultures and generations. \;
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\nFor years\, Sonia Warshawski (91) has been an inspirational public speaker at schools and prisons\, where her stories of surviving the Holocaust as a teenager have inspired countless people who once felt their own traumas would leave them broken forever. But when Sonia is served an eviction notice for her iconic tailor shop (in a dead mall)\, she'\;s confronted with an agonizing decision: either open up a new shop\, or retire. Ironically\, Sonia&rsquo\;s shop is the last open business in an otherwise desolate Kansas City mall\, but it contains enough color and liveliness to make up for the entire empty complex. For a woman who admits she stays busy &ldquo\;to keep the dark parts away&rdquo\;\, facing retirement dredges up fears she&rsquo\;d long forgot she had\, and her horrific past resurfaces.
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\n"\;Big Sonia"\; explores what it means to be a survivor and how inter-generational trauma affects families and generations. \;
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\nReserved seating tickets ($15 Adults\, $10 Students) are available online or by calling the box office at 509-529-6500. LOCATION:Gesa Power House Theatre 111 N. 6th Avenue Walla Walla\, WA 99362 UID:e.65.10480 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260418T013416Z URL:https://business.wwvchamber.com/events/details/documentary-film-big-sonia-10480 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR