PEABODY — Holocaust survivor Sonia Schreiber Weitz carried with her a horrific story when she moved to Peabody in the late 1940s.
Just three years earlier, at 16 years old, Weitz had been liberated from the Mauthausen death camp in Austria after surviving four others, including Auschwitz.
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