Sarah's Key is a story of the imprisonment of French Jews and the lasting effects of a young girl's journey. Julia is a writer and discovers that the family apartment she is about to move into used to be inhabited by a Jewish family that was taken during the Vel d'Hiv Roundup. Her initial writing assignment is to write a piece on the history of this Roundup, but once discovering the connection her inlaws have with this event in history she becomes obsessed with the family that used to live there--especially the little girl Sarah.
Sarah is a young Jewish girl who was taken from her house in France by her country's own policemen. She is very scared and is not sure what is happening, but at first feels secure in the fact that these are Frenchmen so it probably isn't so bad and that she will soon return to her home. Add to the fact that her little brother is hidden in their secret hiding place in the apartment and she is the only one who knows where he is and has the key to open the secret compartment.
As Julia pursues the story she finds out many things about her husband's family, a part of WWII history that she wasn't aware of and finds many things in herself that has been lost or forgotten.
This is an unforgettable story about the horrors of war and the perseverance of people in difficult situations.
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