Sarah’s Key: Chapter 32 Summary & Analysis

Still in her meeting with Lévy, Julia asks him to help her trace the family that lived in the rue de Saintonge before the Tézacs moved in. Lévy agrees on the condition that Julia will not publish the information. Lévy is able to find information that indicates Wladyslaw and Rywka were transported from the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp on convoy 15, which Julia knows traveled directly to Auschwitz. Sarah, however, is not listed as having left Beaune-la-Rolande. (Most of the children at the camp, Lévy explains, were sent back to Paris, to the camp at Drancy, and then deported to Auschwitz.) Lévy also shows Julia a school photo of Sarah wearing her yellow star. Julia asks if Sarah could have possibly escaped the camp and survived the Holocaust and Lévy responds that it is possible, but warns her about digging too deep into the past. That night, Julia shares what she has learned with Guillaume and he gives her the same advice as Lévy, saying, “Sometimes, it’s better not to know.”