On page 117, Eva watches officers walking around unbothered in Drancy and thinks to herself, "Could they all be that evil? Or had they discovered a switch within themselves that allowed them to turn off their civility? Did they go home to their wives at night and simply flip the switches back on, become human once more?" What do you think of her questions? In wartime, do you think those who don't fight for what is right are evil? Do you think they can become immune to atrocities? Discuss.What does the selflessness present in so many in Aurignon say about the promise of the human capacity for goodness in times of crisis?.Was any of this trust misplaced? Were there any red flags about those they should not have trusted? Discuss the many characters Eva and Mamusia trusted to keep their secrets. Eva has to risk her and her mother's safety on numerous occasions by trusting others.Do you think she did the right thing by keeping quiet, or should she have done more to try to save him? What do you think you would have done in this situation? What did Eva's decision reveal about her character and what she might accomplish later in the novel? The beginning of Eva's nightmare falls on the night her father is taken away and she is forced to watch it happen in silence.How does her outlook change? Rereading this and knowing that Mamusia felt this way before tragedy struck, how do your opinions of her and her reaction to Eva's work as a forger change? Do you believe Joseph when he tells Eva that Mamusia said she was proud of the work Eva did to help keep children from being erased? We cannot." Compare her stance here with how she behaves in Aurignon, after Tatuś is taken by the Germans.
On page 16, Mamusia tells Eva, "If we shrink from them, if we lose our goodness, we let them erase us.
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