Sonia Soiferzon was born in Novaya Ushitsa, Ukraine (USSR), 1923 to Idl and Malka. Prior to WWII she lived in Odessa, Ukraine (USSR). During the war she was in Novaya Ushitsa, Ukraine (USSR). Sonia survived the Shoah.
Jews deported to or imprisoned in camps, ghettos or forced labor frameworks, who were in hiding, in clandestinity or resistance formations, or suffered relentless persecution under antisemitic legislation in territories controlled by the Nazis or their allies, and were alive by the end of 1945 are considered Shoah survivors.