Fact vs. Fiction

"My grandmother was fifteen the day of the roundup. She was told she was free because they were only taking small children between two and twelve with their parents. She was left behind. And they took all the others. Her little brothers, her little sister, her mother, her father, her aunt, her uncle. Her grandparents. It was the last time she ever saw them. No one came back. No one at all." Pg. 44

This quote is said by Guillaume at the dinner table when Julia was visiting with Hervé and Christophe. Julia, Hervé, and Christophe were talking about the Veldrome D'Hiver when Guillaume told them that his grandmother was part of it and you could tell it made him very emotional. If you were only 15 years old and everyone in your family left and never came home to you that would leave you such a mess. Before reading this book I thought that Jewish people of all ages were taken to the camps but were killed in orders based on how helpful they were. After reading this it seems they only took the old, young and weak and killed them. I once saw a movie called The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski. In that movie it shows they take all the Jewish people but once they get there they kill all the really old men quickly. It never shows what this book tells you, which is only taking the ages 2-12 and their parents. I'm not sure what one is really the truth because Sarah's Key is written by a French Woman while The Pianist was made by a Polish-French man who's parents as well as himself were actually involved in the Holocaust. This book implys that they only took the young and their parents however I think I would believe what Roman Polanski says about the Holocaust over Tatiana de Rosnays only because he was actually a surviver and lived through the real thing.