La decisión de Sophie

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...

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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.