Sofka was sent to a detention camp, and released shortly
Husband, Grey Skipwith, Killed serving for Royal Air force
Sofka heard stories from Jews with forged passports, and was moved by their stories.
Sofka managed to insert into a toothpaste tube a list of names of the Jews, holders of the South American passports in the camp.
At the end of April and in August 1944 all but 60 of the Jews were deported in two groups from Vittel via Drancy to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Sofka could do little to help the deported Jews and became a shocked witness to their departure from Vittel.
Started forging and creating fake documents to help Transport Jews out of country.
After the first deportation of the Polish Jews, Sofka and Madeleine used their contacts to the resistance movement to arrange getting a number of children out of the camp. They managed to save the life of a Jewish baby. The mother had been taken by police
Soifka wrote an autobiography called "Sofka: the autobiography of a princess"
