Sarah's Key/Tatiana de Rosnay/ p 294

Julia Jarmon, an American journalist in Paris, is asked to write about the roundup of Jews during World War II. Added by the French police and some citizens, Jewish men, women and children were transported from Vel d'Hiv section of Paris to German extermination camps. While investigating what happened, Julia finds a close connection to one of the families. Parallel to Julia's story, we find out about Sarah who lived through the awful roundup. Thinking they would be taken to the police station and returned, she locks her little brother in a cabinet to hide from the police. That key gives her the courage to make her way back to Paris. What she finds in her old apartment changes her forever as well as the family who moved in to their old apartment. The past and present are skillfully interwoven in this riveting book!