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Julia’s coworker, a photojournalist. Bamber is British and has a good sense of humor. With Julia, Bamber visits the sites of the Drancy and Beaune-la-Rolande camps and photographs them for Julia’s article. Bamber’s Britishness makes him particularly keen at pointing out the failures of the French government to adequately acknowledge France’s role in the roundup and the Holocaust more generally.
Bamber Quotes in Sarah’s Key
The Sarah’s Key quotes below are all either spoken by Bamber or refer to Bamber. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 34 Quotes
We wandered around the small, plain room, gazing at photographs, articles, maps. There were some yellow stars, placed behind a glass panel. It was the first time I saw a real one. I felt impressed and sickened.
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This moment occurs when Julia and her colleague Bamber visit the site of the former Drancy internment camp in Paris. This is the camp from which most Parisian Jews were deported. From Drancy, trains followed a direct route to Auschwitz. Julia and Bamber visit the small museum, which is only open by appointment. Julia’s horror at seeing the yellow stars in person highlights the power of physical objects to serve as witnesses to the past. It also contrasts with the way that people who live near Drancy, in cheap apartments built in 1947 almost immediately after World War Two, live Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostr
Chapter 36 Quotes
There were several names and dates on the side of the tombstone. I leaned forward for a closer look. Children. Barely two or three years old. Children who had died at the camp, in July and August 1942. Vel’ d’Hiv’ children.
I had always been acutely aware that everything I had read about the roundup was true. And yet, on that hot spring day, as I stood looking at the grave, it hit me. The whole reality of it hit me.
And I knew that I would no longer rest, no longer be at peace, until I found out precisely what had become of Sarah Starzynski.
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This moment occurs at the cemetery in Beaune-la-Rolande, which Julia visits with her colleague Bamber. The impact that seeing a physical memorial to the Vel’ d’Hiv’ children has on Julia shows the huge importance of concrete, public remembrance of history. Even though she has conducted extensive research on the roundup, the horrible truth of this historical event does not fully strike Julia until she sees the victims’ names listed on this monument. This moment is especially important because the monument that so moves Julia was paid for by Jewish survivors who survived the roundup in order to honor their “martyrs,” Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error
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Bamber Character Timeline in Sarah’s Key
The timeline below shows where the character Bamber appears in Sarah’s Key. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 18
Together with her photojournalist colleague, Bamber, Julia visits the rue Nélaton in Paris—the site of the Vélodrome d’Hiver prior to its...
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Chapter 20
Julia and Bamber meet with the woman referred to them by the waiter. She was thirty-five at the...
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Chapter 34
In the afternoon, Julia meets Bamber so they can visit Beaune-la-Rolande together. Bamber asks if Julia is okay and she realizes...
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Julia and Bamber arrive in Beaune-la-Rolande and tour the town and train station, which has been converted into...
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Chapter 36
Julia and Bamber visit the cemetery at Beaune-la-Rolande. Seeing the graves of children makes Julia determined to uncover...
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