Sonja Muhlberger interview and transcript, January 28, 1995

Sonja Mühlberger was born on October 26, 1939, in the Country Hospital in Shanghai. Her parents, Hermann and Ilse Krips (see interview with Ilse Krips), came to Shanghai in March 1939 on the Italian ship "Biancamano,' after Hermann Krips had survived 3 weeks in Dachau. In Shanghai Hermann Krips sold eggs and founded an anti-fascist study group. Sonja Mühlberger attended the Shanghai Jewish Youth Association School (the so-called Kadoorie School). Her brother Peter was born in 1945. In August 1947 the Krips family returned to Germany on the "Marine Lynx" and since then has lived and worked in eastern Germany. Sonja Mühlberger is a language teacher in Berlin.