Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
To those who loves historical fiction, this book is definitely for you.
I couldn't put this down.
A significant part of the Holocaust was secretly hidden away from knowing, July 1942 marked a dark period of French History. Tens of thousands of Jewish families were arrested and held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver and the Drancy internment camp nearby, finally shipped by railway transports to Aushwitz (Poland) for extermination. Not by the Nazis. But the French police.
The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup unveiled another 'interesting' fact about the French authorities at that time. As a sign of collaboration with the then mighty Germany, the French Police actually arrested Jewish children (below 16), in hope of making up a scenario to the general public that the families were deported for work, even though the arrest of children was not requested by the Nazis.
To those who loves historical fiction, this book is definitely for you.
I couldn't put this down.
A significant part of the Holocaust was secretly hidden away from knowing, July 1942 marked a dark period of French History. Tens of thousands of Jewish families were arrested and held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver and the Drancy internment camp nearby, finally shipped by railway transports to Aushwitz (Poland) for extermination. Not by the Nazis. But the French police.
The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup unveiled another 'interesting' fact about the French authorities at that time. As a sign of collaboration with the then mighty Germany, the French Police actually arrested Jewish children (below 16), in hope of making up a scenario to the general public that the families were deported for work, even though the arrest of children was not requested by the Nazis.
This book brings you to the past of 1942 and the present at 2002. It tells the story of a 10 year old Jewish girl Sarah Strazynski who is forced to go to the Velodrome d'Hiver with her mother and father, innocently leaving behind a 4 year old brother Michel locked in a secret cupboard with the assurance that she would return to let him out when it was safe... Read to find out what happened, what was discovered and what it eventually led to...
I told Wen about it and we agreed that it would make a good movie.
I did a google on the title and... voila! It is screening in Australia!
I can't wait to catch it when it arrives in Singapore!
I did a google on the title and... voila! It is screening in Australia!
I can't wait to catch it when it arrives in Singapore!
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