Premieres Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, April 28 at 4 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with PBS Video App
In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski – great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor – runs the tailor shop she’s owned for more than 30 years. But when she’s served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia to resist her harrowing past as a refugee and witness to genocide.
Big Sonia: Extended Trailer
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At John’s Tailoring, in Metcalf South Mall, Sonia hems a shirt for one of her long-Tme customers, Fred.
DP: Todd Soliday
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Sonia on her love seat in her shop, John’s Tailoring, at Metcalf South Mall. Her iconic “whatever” pillow is at her side and a photo of John hangs beside her.
Courtesy of Gloria Baker Feinstein
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Sonia shows off her mother’s scarf - most precious keepsake from her mother who died in the Holocaust. She keeps the scarf under her pillow to keep her mother close to her.
Courtesy of DP: Todd Soliday
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Sonia showing her taKoo to an auditorium of middle school students at Lakewood Middle School in Overland Park, Kan.
Courtesy of DP: Todd Soliday
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Sonia speaks to a group of inmates involved in the Reaching Out From Within program at Lansing CorrecTonal Facility in Lansing, Kan.
Courtesy of DP: Todd Soliday
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Olivia Tavernaro and the trophy she won for an essay she wrote about Sonia.
Courtesy of DP: Todd Soliday
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Caroline Kennedy at Lakewood Middle School in Overland Park, Kan. AYer she heard Sonia speak she was inspired to start her own foundaTon a few years later.
Courtesy of DP: Todd Soliday
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Sonia at the wheel of her Oldsmobile.
Courtesy of Gloria Baker Feinstein
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