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In 1947, young writer Stingo arrives in Brooklyn, New York, from the American South. At the boarding house where he stays, he meets a couple, Nathan, a Jew who is pathologically obsessed with the problems of Jews and the Holocaust, and Sophie, a gentle Polish woman. Right from the start, he notices that their relationship is going through violent ups and downs and that Nathan sometimes behaves incredibly cruelly. Nevertheless, they eventually become friends. Stingo begins writing his novel with autobiographical elements... He soon discovers that Sophie was in a concentration camp, even though she is pure Aryan, where, as she recounts, her father, a Warsaw law professor, and her husband died. She met Nathan when she fainted in the library one day. Six months after arriving in America, she was at the end of her rope. Nathan saved her, took care of her, cooked for her, and had long conversations with her.

During one meeting with Stingo, she confides in him that she was sent to a concentration camp because she secretly obtained meat for her mother, who was suffering from tuberculosis. She survived and then spent some time in Sweden... One day, Nathan's rage reaches its peak. While Stingo and Sophie are preparing to celebrate his new biological invention, which he keeps talking about, he makes a scene, insulting them both, and a devastated Sophie once again takes his side. The next day, they are both gone. Stingo looks for Sophie at the Polish Studies department, where her supervisor tells him that Sophie's father was a passionate admirer of the Nazis and an anti-Semite, the opposite of what Sophie had told him. His anti-Jewish views were well known, but as a potentially dangerous intellectual, he ended up in a concentration camp. When Sophie comes to collect her things the next day, she confesses everything, including how she learned about her father's views when she was copying a speech for him one day, which proclaimed "extermination" as the final solution to the Jewish question in Poland.

She also remembers Josef, a Polish man who loved her very much at the time and whose sister Wanda asked her to join the resistance. Sophie refused, however, and Josef was soon killed by the Gestapo. She herself was arrested along with her children and transported to Auschwitz... She recounts how, during the selection of prisoners, her son Jan was sent to the children's camp, while her daughter was sent to the gas chamber. Thanks to her knowledge of German, Sophie became the secretary of camp commander Rudolf Höss. Immediately after her arrival, she was approached by a prisoner who asked her to take a radio from the room of Höss's daughter Emmi. Sophie hesitates. Meanwhile, she learns that an epidemic has broken out in the children's camp and tries to beg Höss to release her, even offering herself to him. She shows him her father's article on the "final solution to the Jewish question in Poland." Höss refuses, so Sophie begs him to at least send her son to Germany for re-education as part of the "Lebensborn" project. Höss promises, but does not keep his promise. Sophie fails to take the radio; little Emmi catches her. She will never see her son again. Commander Höss is transferred and Sophie returns to her block...

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