Helpful Score: 1
Sarah's Key is based on the Vel dHiv. A tragic and horrifying event in which thousands of Jewish families were rounded up by the French police and shipped off to the Auschwitz gas chambers.
The first half of the book is told in alternating viewpoints - first we meet young Sarah as her family is being rounded up by those French policeman in the middle of the night. In order to save her brother, she locks him in their secret hiding place, a cupboard in their bedroom. She thinks she will be right back to let him out; however, things do not go the way Sarah thinks they will.
Second we meet Julia who is a journalist that is covering the 60 year anniversary of the Vel dHiv roundup. What she uncovers during her research will change her life forever.
I wish the book was told entirely from young Sarahs perspective but it is still a good story and tells of a time that is not well known in World War II history, so for that purpose, I would recommend it.
The first half of the book is told in alternating viewpoints - first we meet young Sarah as her family is being rounded up by those French policeman in the middle of the night. In order to save her brother, she locks him in their secret hiding place, a cupboard in their bedroom. She thinks she will be right back to let him out; however, things do not go the way Sarah thinks they will.
Second we meet Julia who is a journalist that is covering the 60 year anniversary of the Vel dHiv roundup. What she uncovers during her research will change her life forever.
I wish the book was told entirely from young Sarahs perspective but it is still a good story and tells of a time that is not well known in World War II history, so for that purpose, I would recommend it.
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