Title - Sarah's Key
Author - Tatiana De Rozney
Copyright date- 2003
Price- $13.95/$15.50 CAB (free to me!)
Page - 293
ISBN- 13:978-0-312-3708/10:0-312-378084-9
'Zakhor Al Tichkah - Remember never forget'
When you find an old key in a junk yard, stop a minute and think what it might open?
This book has a distinctly different feel to other accounts. It presents two intertwined fictional stories of past and present, interspersed with historical facts about the second world war in France. This is a rich novel that once you pick it up you cannot put down.
It follows the life of young Sarah who was torn from her home in July 1942 in the middle of the night. Sarah is a Jew. Sarah doesn't know what this means, but she doesn't like wearing a yellow star on all her clothes. Her and her family are rounded up in a large sports hall Vel d'Hiv and kept there for days in inhumane conditions with no food or water. Thousands of children are herded up to meet the Nazi's demands - regardless of whether they are women, men or children. However it was not the Nazi's who took them from their beds at night, it was the French police who were following orders...
The tragedies of the sports hall are covered up for many years and the other story of Julia Jarmond sees the secrets of the past being uncovered. Battling peoples reluctance to talk about the tragedies of the past due to shame and fear she begins to uncover the heartbreakingly truth of the past, and of its link to her newly acquired flat with a hidden door in the wall...
The tragedies of the sports hall are covered up for many years and the other story of Julia Jarmond sees the secrets of the past being uncovered. Battling peoples reluctance to talk about the tragedies of the past due to shame and fear she begins to uncover the heartbreakingly truth of the past, and of its link to her newly acquired flat with a hidden door in the wall...
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