The single most evocative document in the family record. Sophie’s eleven-page hand-written biographical statement, dated June 22, 1960, filed with the Joint Medical Authority. It tells the story of her Warsaw childhood, her parents (a Warsaw obstetrician killed at Majdanek, a devout Catholic mother), her older sister lost to meningitis before Sophie was born, her wartime years in France, and her meeting with Constantine.
The statement is the cornerstone source for the Polish-side narrative on this site, but it also has a structural gap: Sophie never names her own parents, sister, or grandparents anywhere in the eleven pages — only describes them. Recovering those names is the largest open question on her line.