No, I was sent to Auschwitz because they saw that I was afraid
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Sophie:
My mother, she's very sick, you know. And I can't do anything. But I think - if only I could have got - that meat for my mother it would make her strong. So I go to the country and er... the peasants were selling ham and I buy it with the black market money and I bring it back. But it's forbidden, you know, because all the meat goes to the Germans. So I sat on the train and I hid it under my skirt, I am pretending that I am pregnant, you know? Oh I was so afraid. I was shaking. And then the German, was in front of the train and he saw me. So he come over and take under my skirt that ham and... [pause] Sophie:
So they sent me Auschwitz. Stingo:
You were sent to Auschwitz because you stole a ham? Sophie:
No, I was sent to Auschwitz because they saw that I was afraid
My mother, she's very sick, you know. And I can't do anything. But I think - if only I could have got - that meat for my mother it would make her strong. So I go to the country and er... the peasants were selling ham and I buy it with the black market money and I bring it back. But it's forbidden, you know, because all the meat goes to the Germans. So I sat on the train and I hid it under my skirt, I am pretending that I am pregnant, you know? Oh I was so afraid. I was shaking. And then the German, was in front of the train and he saw me. So he come over and take under my skirt that ham and... [pause] Sophie:
So they sent me Auschwitz. Stingo:
You were sent to Auschwitz because you stole a ham? Sophie:
No, I was sent to Auschwitz because they saw that I was afraid
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She is very sick you know She's dying I can't do anything
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But I think if I could get that meet for my mother
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I would make her strong so I go to the country and
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the peasants they're selling ham
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And I go with that black market money and I buy that and
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I bring it back But it's forbidden for all the meet goes to the Germans
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If you get caught
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Movie Summary
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.
Actors
Sophie
Stingo
