Elle s'appelait Sarah by Tatiana de Rosnay

The reviewed book is multidimensional, emotionally written but unfortunately, as it has been mentioned in some reviews, it has weak points as well. And the only way to prevent it from happening again is to never forget it. For human beings, the Holocaust is impossible to understand, it is just unexplainable. Using modern technology, fascist anthropoids made the killing of humans a branch of industry. People couldn’t believe what they learned. People’s beliefs melted like a piece of paper in acid when the terrifying truth about fascist factories of deaths became known. Humanlike anthropoids appeared in other countries, and people continued to believe that they were ordinary criminals. Then World War II broke out and the world forgot about the 20 million innocent victims. Over a period of 20 years they killed at least 20 million, maybe more. Russian anthropoids captured power in the Soviet Russia, invented concentration camps and, killing over a million innocent people yearly. In their naivety, they missed the point when one of the most horrible and bloodthirsty variety of anthropoids (resembling humans) became active. No one wants to be reminded of that, nobody wants to think about that.” The book demonstrates that such amnesia can be deadly.įor a long time naïve people believed that the world moves in the direction of higher level of humanization. One character of the book says: “Bringing back the past is never a good idea, especially whatever happened during the war. In her novel, the author writes with anxiety and great concern that people want to forget about the Holocaust. They are already well known, but the book gave birth to some of my thoughts. The author reminds us of those tragic facts. France wanted to forget about its anti-human past and thoroughly concealed it.

The second parallel story is about an American journalist, Julia Jermond, who, writing an article about Vel’ d’Hiv’s roundup, found out many horrible details of this crime committed by French police. Almost all of them perished in concentration camps.

In 1942, on the orders of German military authorities, French police brutally arrested all Jewish families in Paris. One story is about the tragedy of a Jewish girl named Sarah. However, from my standpoint, despite the fair critical comments (I don’t think it is necessary to list them), the novel deserves a rather high rating, and I will try to explain why. It is necessary to admit that their opinions weren’t unfounded and most critical comments were fair. Most of them rated the book in four or five stars, but some of them calling the novel “mediocre” showed a lower rating – three stars. Almost a hundred readers published their reviews on Tatiana de Rosnay’s novel Sarah’s Key.

Elle s'appelait Sarah by Tatiana de Rosnay