Loving Sarah's Key!

Awhile back you may remember me offering up 5 copies of the wonderful book Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (you can read my review here)...

Well in my blog travels today I happened upon the blog of one of the lucky winners along with her review of the book. Kim over at MommyKnows has hosted so many great contests in the past that I was overjoyed when her name came up for a copy of the book. You can see her review here

While there you have the opportunity to post and win a $10 starbucks giftcard and her used copy of Sarah's Key.

If you're not familiar with the story behind Sarah's Key you will be moved, and probably wonder why the Vel d'hiv roundup wasn't taught in school. As I mentioned in my review I had an amazing teacher in high school who pushed the bounds on acceptable topics covered in class. He firmly believed that the youth had the responsibility to learn about all of the dark spots in history in order to prevent them from happening again. But the internment and eventual mass execution of far too many Jewish people, including French born Jewish children was not covered.

Sarah's Key will move you. Will make you think. And will more then likely get you on Google searching everything that you can possibly find out about this dark period in French history.

The characters in Sarah's Key are so unforgettable, and real. Tatiana does a wonderful job of creating her characters, and they have so much depth that its almost as if you're right there with them going through the events that transpired.

I read this book over 2 nights, it is such an amazing book that I just couldn't bear to put it down. When I wasn't reading it I was constantly thinking about what would transpire next. A true sign of greatly authored book in my opinion!

The subject matter behind Sarah's Key may be hard for some people to read. Looking at my 2 young children while reading the book broke my heart thinking that it could have been them. The way the Jewish people were segregated out in the first place is hard enough to fathom. Though I did find solace in the fact that there were people brave enough to stand up for and help the Jewish families during this time. At great cost if they were caught helping the so called enemy. The fact that people were willing to risk persecution to stand up for the injustice forced upon these families for their religion helps restore my faith in humanity.