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Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
Based on true events, Sarah's Key tells the story of a 10 year old Jewish girl living in Paris during WWII. One summer night in 1942, the French police rounded up thousands of Jews and took them to a stadium where they were held without food or water for a few days. Sarah and her parents are among those rounded up, but Sarah helped her 4 year old brother hide in a one of their favorite hiding places the night the police came for them, a deep cupboard where she and he often played hide and seek from their parents.
Sarah locked the cupboard and put the key in her pocket, thinking she'd be back in a matter of hours to let Michel out. As the horror of their circumstances becomes apparent she is distraught at the thought of her little brother alone, scared, hungry. She knows she must escape, for him.
Interspersed with Sarah's story is the modern day story of Julia, an American who has made Paris her home for 25 years. Julia is married to a Frenchman, they have a daughter, and she writes for a newspaper largely aimed at Americans in Paris.
Julia is given an assignment to write about the Vel d'Hiv (the name given to the round up of the Jews on July 16,1942). The shocking details Julia discovers change her life in ways she'd never imagined.
The role of the French people and the French police in committing crimes against Jews during WWII is unknown to many. Julia is disturbed that so many around her don't care to know or don't want to remember what happened during the War.
The two stories eventually intersect in a very beautiful and moving fashion, to say more would be to give away the end.
Sarah locked the cupboard and put the key in her pocket, thinking she'd be back in a matter of hours to let Michel out. As the horror of their circumstances becomes apparent she is distraught at the thought of her little brother alone, scared, hungry. She knows she must escape, for him.
Interspersed with Sarah's story is the modern day story of Julia, an American who has made Paris her home for 25 years. Julia is married to a Frenchman, they have a daughter, and she writes for a newspaper largely aimed at Americans in Paris.
Julia is given an assignment to write about the Vel d'Hiv (the name given to the round up of the Jews on July 16,1942). The shocking details Julia discovers change her life in ways she'd never imagined.
The role of the French people and the French police in committing crimes against Jews during WWII is unknown to many. Julia is disturbed that so many around her don't care to know or don't want to remember what happened during the War.
The two stories eventually intersect in a very beautiful and moving fashion, to say more would be to give away the end.