What is Szifra's attitude toward her brothers? Why doesn't she abandon them? What do you think you would have done in her place?
Created: 01/01/24
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Szifra felt responsible for her brothers and sacrificed everything for them. She prostituted herself in order to provide safety for them. She realized that she was the only one who could protect them. What would I have done? It's hard to imagine being in such a horrendous situation, so i cant honestly answer that question.
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I think she cared for her brothers, but they were also a burden to her. As a young woman, she didn't have many options to provide for them and to protect them. She made the only choice she thought she had-and in the end it didn't work for her or for them. With her death and Adam's theft of the boys' identification papers there is no hope for the survival of Szifra's brothers.
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Szifra was a strong girl who protecxted her brothers at all costs. After her parents were killed, she prostitued herslef to protect them I wonder how many women were forced to do the same thing for thier families. She made a huge sacrifice for them.It coudl not have been easy.
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She loved her brothers and felt protective of them. Their father killed himself, their mother was having a mental breakdown & trying to work at the brush factory to keep them in their apartment, warm, and fed. Szifra became a surrogate parent to them and saw herself as capable of being not just their protector, but their savior. She was intent on doing whatever was necessary -- literally -- to survive and keep her brothers safe. She had a tough exterior because of everything she'd been through, but a soft, caring interior. She postured and posed to hide her fear and vulenrability. She was a fascinating, emotionally moving, and tragic character.
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Szifra loved her brothers so much and sacrificed everything for their lives.... so many humiliating acts that she put herself through in order to give them a chance at freedom. Ultimately, it cost her life. Thats why I was so disheartened at Adams choice to get the kenkarttes to Salas boys.
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Szifra deeply loved her brothers and did what she had to do to keep them warm and fed and safe. At some point she probably could have gotten herself out of the ghetto, but would not leave without her brothers. She was only a child herself, when she became the head of this household. She put on a good front to cover the fear she had to be feeling. She saw what was happening in the ghetto every day and was smart enough to know the danger she was in, all around.
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Her parents both failed her and her brothers when they were needed the most. How selfish and short-sighted they were! Szifra's natural take charge personality lit up with the purpose of keeping her family together to survive for the future. She used her only asset left, her body, to keep them living. She was determined not to fail. I absolutely would have done the same thing. Manipulate the system to achieve a glimpse of a future.
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Szifra’s sees her brothers as her responsibility. She sees them as weaker and less capable than she is. She uses her strength, her beauty and her sexuality to feed and protect them and to attempt to engineer their escape. I don’t know that I would have been brave enough to do what she did.
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