Sonia Pressman Fuentes

Museum Exhibits

• Press Release of August 2, 2011, of the Jewish Museum of Florida in Miami Beach, FL, which had an exhibit from September 13, 2011, through March 18, 2012, called "Wooden Synagogues of Poland & The Florida Connection." That exhibit included Sonia and her family. The Press Release contains a photo titled, “Dombek Family, Sosnowice, Poland, c.1910.” In the center of the picture is Sonia’s uncle (her mother’s brother) and he is surrounded by his family.
• In the spring of 2013, the Red Star Line Museum will open in Antwerp, Belgium, dedicated to the Red Star shipping line, which brought over two million people from Antwerp to the United States, many of them Jews, from 1873 through 1934.  Sonia and her family arrived in NY City from Antwerp on May 1, 1934, on the S.S.Westernland, a Red Star Line ship, and the Red Star Line Museum will have a permanent exhibit on Sonia and her family.
• The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has the diary that Sonia’s brother, Hermann, began keeping in German shorthand in Berlin, Germany, on his 18th birthday, July 21, 1932; continued in Antwerp, Belgium; and concluded in the Bronx on November 29, 1935.  It also has the English translation of that diary.
• The National Museum of Jewish History in Philadelphia, PA, has an exhibit on the feminist movement, which includes a picture of some of NOW’s founders, including Sonia, which Sonia provided to the museum, at the request of the museum’s staff.