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This book has been on my TBR for a very long time. Why I do not know.
This is the haunting story of a little girl who hides her brother in a cupboard She and her parents are arrested in Paris in 1942, because they are Jewish.
Sarah needs to get back to Paris to rescue her brother. She keeps the key secretly in her pocket. Time is the essence. Will she succeed?
Current day Julia Jarmond is an American journalist doing a story on the 60th anniversary of Vel d’Hiv, the roundup of Jews in Paris. She is ...more
This is the haunting story of a little girl who hides her brother in a cupboard She and her parents are arrested in Paris in 1942, because they are Jewish.
Sarah needs to get back to Paris to rescue her brother. She keeps the key secretly in her pocket. Time is the essence. Will she succeed?
Current day Julia Jarmond is an American journalist doing a story on the 60th anniversary of Vel d’Hiv, the roundup of Jews in Paris. She is ...more
I read this book in 2014, before I wrote reviews on my books.
This book, recently read and reviewed by Jaline, is more than worthy of a few words of praise from me as well!!!
I had made one note during my reading:
This book has two parallel stories July 16 1942 and 60 years later. The house vacated by Sarah's family in the Parisian roundup is now being renovated by a newspaper columnist writing on the roundup's 60th anniversary.
Before I read Sarah's Key, I had NO concept of the horrible treatment ...more
This book, recently read and reviewed by Jaline, is more than worthy of a few words of praise from me as well!!!
I had made one note during my reading:
This book has two parallel stories July 16 1942 and 60 years later. The house vacated by Sarah's family in the Parisian roundup is now being renovated by a newspaper columnist writing on the roundup's 60th anniversary.
Before I read Sarah's Key, I had NO concept of the horrible treatment ...more
The book is told in alternating chapters – Sarah Starzynski, her parents and younger brother in Paris and environs during WW 2, and Julia Jarmond Tezac, an American living in Paris in 2002.
Sarah and her parents were rounded up in August 1942 by the French police on orders of the occupying Nazi regime. They were held for about a week at the velodrome stadium – without food, water, toilets, beds. They were then sent via train to a detention camp, and some time later divided. Her parents are sent ...more
Sarah and her parents were rounded up in August 1942 by the French police on orders of the occupying Nazi regime. They were held for about a week at the velodrome stadium – without food, water, toilets, beds. They were then sent via train to a detention camp, and some time later divided. Her parents are sent ...more
3.5 Stars
"Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.
Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidd ...more
"Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.
Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidd ...more
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This is one of the fastest books I have read. I randomly picked this up at my favorite bookstore. It had my name on it, Sarah, so I was immediately drawn to it. It also takes place in France (which I have a sweet spot for) and it is historical fiction, which I love, taking place between in 1942 (and 2002). I enjoy a split timeline book, it makes me read faster. This book isn't necessarily happy, I cried many times, but it is powerful and I am glad I happened to put my hand on it in the store and
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Mar 29, 2012
˜”*°•.˜”*°• Sheri •°*”˜.•°*”˜
rated it
really liked it
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historical-fiction,
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Lory Sakay
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