Sarah's Key

from bookmagic

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay July 16, 1942. The French police rounded up Jewish families to be taken to Velodrome d'Hiver,an indoor stadium known as Vel' d'Hiv for short. Thousands of Jewish families were locked up there for days before being shipped off to Auschwitz. Sarah is a young girl wh...

from rainpebble

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay is an on the edge of your seat page turner. Again we go back to WWII and the Holocaust. Seems most of my book choices end up there whether I want them to or not. The story is about a young girl about 10 years of age and her family during the Paris Round up of Jews...

from pelette

Sarah's Key is the story of a young girl and her family who are taken in the Vel d'Hiv roundup and deportation in 1942 Paris. The story grabbed me from the very beginning and I didn't put it down until I was finished. In the first chapters the author alternates between Sarah's story and a modern ...

from RidgewayGirl

"Sarah's Key" consists of two parallel stories, the contemporary story of Julia, a journalist researching the events surrounding a roundup in Paris by the French authorities of Jewish families in 1942 and the story of a young girl, the titular Sarah, caught up in the nightmare. The novel jumps ba...

from tara35

In July of 1942 the German army ordered the French police to round up Jewish citizens in Paris. The prisoners were brought to an indoor sporting arena called the Velodrome and the incident is now know as the Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv. The prisoners suffered for days in the Velodrome, eventually were re...