Sarah's Key by Tatiana DeRosnay

Yet another poignant story that illuminates the horrific conditions that Jewish people faced during the Hitler era. July 16. 1942 in France is a date that will live in infamy. French Jews were seized by French police from their homes and sent in waves, men first then women than their children to Auschwitz to be exterminated. In this fiction, a young girl escapes the physical extermination but suffers instead a unique internal anguish precipitated by the round-up. This story centers around a Journalist who gradually unravels the details of this fictional but eminently believable event.