I watched the movie Sarah's Key. I thought this movie was a great movie to watch, and learn about the holocaust. It was just one of many ways to show was people did to protect their families. Even what people did to help out the Jews.
Sarah's Key is about a little girl that tries to keep her brother from getting taken to the camps. She tells him to stay there until she comes back. Sarah locks the door, and keeps the key with her. Sarah and her family end up getting taken away to the camp called Welodrome d'Hiver. The people are transferred to Beaune- la- Rolande. The adults are deported to Auschwitz leaving the children in the camp.
Sarah finds a friend, and they were able to talk one of the police to let them out so Sarah could save her brother. After a long night spent in a dog house, the girls are found, and then taken care of by a non- jewish couple. Knowing who the girls are, the couple still takes in the girls, and protect them. Rachel, Sarah's friend dies from a sickness. The couple that Sarah stays with, takes her home to get her brother back. Sarah runs to her room, and unlocks the door with the key that she kept. Scared by what she finds, Sarah starts screaming.
Sarah continued to live with the couple. Later, when Sarah turned 18, she moved to the U.S. to forget what had happened. She stops talking to the couple that took care of her, and gets married and has a son, William. What William turned 9, Sarah commits suicide by driving into the path of a truck. She commits suicide because she still blames herself for her brother's death. Her son believes that her death was an accident.
In the present time, there is a journalist, Julia, inherited the apartment of his grandparents. Julia finds interest in her husband's family history because the apartment came into her husbands family at about the times of the Roundup, and Julia begins to investigate what happened 70 years ago.
Julia begins investigating, and trying to find any trace of Sarah and finding Sarah's death in Brooklyn. Julia locates William, Sarah's son, in Italy. Julia meets with William to get some information about his mother. When Julia meets with him, she learns that William doesn't know his mother's history, or even that she was a Jew. William only believed that Sarah was a French farm girl. William rejects Julia's story about his Mother, and later on he finds out the truth from his father.
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Good summary!! Glad you enjoyed it. I have not seen this movie. I will have to look into it.