Thursday
August 2, 2012
7:00 pm
In
the summer of 1942, the French police arrested thousands of Jewish
families and held them outside of Paris before shipping them off to
Auschwitz. On the 60th anniversary of the roundups, an expatriate
American journalist covering the atrocities discovers a personal
connection—her apartment was formerly occupied by one such family.
She resolves to find out what happened to Sarah, the 10-year-old
daughter, who was the only family member to survive. Tatiana de
Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France
under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround
this painful episode.
