You can now loan books via the kindle…and the other day my mother in law sent me this one. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. I hadn’t heard of it but read the quick description [from Amazon] “Sarah’s Key fictionalizes the 1942 Paris roundups and deportations, in which thousands of Jewish families were arrested, held at the Vélodrome d’Hiver outside the city, then transported to Auschwitz.” and downloaded it immediately. (I’m pretty much a sucker for any novel set during the Holocaust rooted in my love for Corrie Ten Boone’s The Hiding Place). I read it in 3 days. I couldn’t put it down. It was inspiring, sobering and emotional.

I was instantly attached to both girls in the story, Sarah, the little girl dealing with being sent to a camp and separated from her family, and Julia, a journalist looking into the events of July 1942 and finding her family suddenly connected to Sarah’s family. At one point someone asks Julia why she, an American born long after the war and with no connection to the tragedy, is so determined to find Sarah. Julia replies that she wants to apologize, “Sorry for not knowing. Sorry for being 45 years old and not knowing.” Reading Sarah’s Key helps us all know a little more.

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