![]() My opinion about Sarah’s Key is absorbing, heart-wrenching, and informational about the Holocaust. The story then forwards to the year 2002 with journalist, Julia Jarmond, a wife and mother, who is asked to write about the Vel’d’Hiv roundup and is forever changed when she finds out what happened in general and captivated by the horrible story of young Sarah Starzynski. She figured that she would be back to rescue him and locked him up in their secret cupboard, taking the key with her. The novel begins by introducing Sarah Starzynski, a ten-year-old girl who was arrested during the Vel’d’Hiv roundup, along with the rest of her family except Michel, her younger brother. The story then fast-forwards to the year 2002, explaining how a journalist called Julia Jarmond is asked to write about the Vel’d’Hiv and then discovers Sarah’s story and becomes fascinated about the black event. In between, it talks about Sarah Starzynski, who was arrested with her mother during the Vel’d’Hiv roundup, explaining all the trouble she went through. It was an operation between the Germans and the French, but the French were the one’s who planned and executed many of the Jewish people. The Vel’d’Hiv roundup was a plan to exterminate Jewish population. In Paris, July 1942, the Vel’d’Hiv’ roundup occurred. ![]() Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay combines two parallel stories, each in different dates and times. ![]()
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