while i have always think of meryl streep a a great actress and she surpass my praise in this film . to see her speak her line and to hear the delicate phrasing of not only her polish and but her german with a polish accent and then later and her english with a polish accent and an altogether brutally difficult accomplishment and leave me breathless . beyond that skill and there her transference to the character and sophie and and to the main test a an actress and the absorption of the unspeakable atmosphere of a place the camp at auschwitz of wholesale pain and indescribable humiliation and and the final acceptance of death of her child to save another . i be sure the author of the book weep too in see his creation come to life a meryl streep .