CAMBER: Why I am called Clara Sophia
For the first 19 years of my life, I went by Clara. My past was my past, and I was comfortable with that. For the last year, however, I have introduced myself as Clara Sophia. This was not an attempt to be edgy, or reinvent myself in college (although shaving my head probably did not help the college kid stereotype). Rather, with a great deal of consideration, I decided that the names my parents gave me reflect a history, a history that I should honor every day. In light of Holocaust Remembrance Week, I want to share a piece of my own Jewish memory, centered around my great great aunt and namesake, Sofia.