Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

        Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay is two different stories in one. It focuses on the Holocaust and tells all the conditions and prejudice the Jewish along with many other groups faced.


           One set in Paris of July of 1942.  There was a roundup taking place that intended to kill off the entire Jewish population.  The book then focuses in Sarah Starynski, a ten-year-old girl who was arrested during this roundup along with her entire family except her younger brother Michel, who she-assuming she would be back to rescue him- hid him in a secret cupboard, and took the key to the cupboard with her. The story then moves on to tell about a journalist named Julia Jarmond who in 2002 is asked to write about this roundup which is called the Vel’d’Hiv’ roundup.  When Julia was researching the roundup, she came across Sarah's story and becomes fascinated by the intriguing story.  I was taken along as I learned Sarah's sad, emotional story as Julia did. I learned that Sarah and her family had been sent to a concentration camp and learned about the holocaust and the terrible conditions.  The story told all the hardships and problems the family faced.  In the end, Sarah and her family were finally taken to Auschwitz where they were executed.