Sarah's Key

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't posted in sooo long! I've been super busy with everything lately.
So right now I'm reading Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay. She's a French author. We watched this movie in my French class, and it was really good.

I saw the book at Target and I bought it. Right now I'm on page 64. It's so sad. It's about the Velodrome d'Hiver roundup in 1942 in France. Which just recently the French admitted to having concentration camps of their own. Most French people don't even know about it. There was over 4,000 children killed from France. about 13,000 French people were taken to Auschwitz and never came back.

The book is about a little girl who gets taken to the camps and locks her little brother in the closet at home to be safe when they got arrested, not knowing they'd never see their house again. You also follow the story of the American journalist that found this story. She now lives in the apartment the little girl and the family lived in, with her French husband.
But anyway, the little girl describes everything, and everyone knows how horrible the Holocaust was.
The American woman gets upset because she thinks her husband's family had something to do with the family getting arrested, because her husband's grandparents bought the apartment shortly after the family was taken.
And she can't fathom the idea of willingly sending innocent people to their imminent death.

Which made me think, what would I do? If I were in that situation, and someone told me that if I didn't tell them where these people were, then I myself, and my family would die. Then would I sacrifice me, and the people I love the most for the greater good? And the answer is, I don't know. Either way people would be dying, and that fact alone would make it so difficult. I guess I would see what my family wanted to do, and if they were okay with us all dying together, I guess I could live with that. Because if you're alone, then life is nothing. I'd rather die with my family, than live with a guilty conscience my whole life.
And if my family wasn't willing to die for another family? Then I don't know. I can't put myself in that situation, I honestly don't know.

So, the question is, what would you have done?
Hearts and doing the right thing.
- Kimberlee.