PARIS FRANCE

Paris France. The city of romance. The city of lights. A beautiful city I miss. Went to Paris in 1996. That was 12 years ago. No wonder I miss this place. I am reading Sarah's Key, a story about the Vel' d' Hiv.. this black day in Frances past. July 16, 1942 the Paris Police supported the Gestapo by rounding up thousands of women and children in the city. Parisians had know for over a month that something was wrong, going to happen but the men are the ones who went into hiding. The women and children thought they were safe. Apparently this was not the case. They rounded up all of the Jewish women and children and sent them on trains to Auschwitz. The book, written by Tatiana De Rosnay is a historical fiction novel of the Vel' d' Hiv account. To think of Paris under attack, people; especially women and children being rounded up to be killed is unbearable. The author tells her story from a little girls point of view as well as her journalistic accounts and an interview with a survivor.