Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

When Julia Jarmond, an American journalist living in Paris, begins researching for an article on the Jewish families arrested in 1942 and held in the Vendrome in Paris awaiting transport to the camps, she has no idea how what she discovers will affect her life in 2002. When 10 year old Sarah locks her brother in a secret cupboard to keep him safe during the 1942 roundup, she has no idea where that secret will lead her or what horrors await her family. This is not a Holocaust story of the camps but it is both tragic and heroic as only a Holocaust story can be. It is also a reminder of the ripples that continuously emerge from history's biggest events.