A review by sandiet
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

5.0

A very sad fictional novel about the true story of thousands of Jewish families who were arrested in Paris in 1942, held at the Vélodrome d’Hiver outside the city and then sent to their deaths at Auschwitz. For the first half of the book the story is told using 2 different voices; Sarah is 12 when her and her family are taken to Vel d’Hiv and the second voice is Julia, a journalist assigned to write a story covering the 60th anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv roundups. This book was educational because I had never heard of this particular episode in history, but also very sad because over 4,000 children and their families were taken to their deaths.