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A central idea from my book Such Good Girls by R. D. Rosen is the idea of loss. In my book one of the main characters, Sophie, and her mom have to get new identities, move to a different country, and pretend to be of a different religion so that they don't get caught by the Germans and taken to concentration camps or killed. In this period of moving, Sophie loses many things. Shortly before they are planning to leave, the building Sophie's dad was in got raided by Nazi's and he wasn't seen again. Soon after that she and her mother move and she loses the comfort of home and familiarity. She even loses her identity since she has to act christian and be called a different name to make sure the Germans didn't suspect her and her mom as runaway Jews. Then, at the end of the war when her mother could tell her about how she used to be Jewish even though she didn't remember it much she suffered another loss of identity, after thinking she and her mother were Christian for 15 years.
Sophie around age 2 and her mom
An outside article I found that also talks about loss is http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-10-07/features/ct-talk-brotman-holocaust-20131007_1_aaron-elster-former-children-holocaust. This article talks about other hidden Holocaust survivors. It talks about how some people say it was better to be hidden than to have gone to a concentration camp and the hidden survivors didn't lose as much. However, this article talks about how some of the children had to leave their families and friends behind to die or had to come back to their families being gone and house raided by Nazi's and they are the only ones left. It also talks about how even though they're older they still remember the loss they had to deal with and how it still affects them.
One of the hidden Holocaust survivors
