Discover the story of the song > Comme toi – Jean-Jacques Goldman

- The song is about Sarah, a Jewish child victim of the Holocaust.
- The idea for the song came to Goldman while looking at a photo of a little girl (not necessarily named Sarah) in a family album of his mother, who was born in Germany.
- Goldman, of Polish Jewish origin, shows his attachment to Eastern European countries and their musical traditions; he does not play the violin solo in the first version of the song, but will do so during his concerts.
- The single will be certified gold in 1983 for more than 500 000 copies sold.
- In the spring of 1983, a single was released in Spain on which Jean-Jacques Goldman can be heard singing in Spanish an adaptation by B. Frances of Comme toi entitled Como tu. It was not a great success despite the inscription on the front cover: "Nro. 1 in Francia", which means "number 1 in France".
- The novel by Tatiana de Rosnay Elle s'appelait Sarah (2008), which tells the story of a little girl victim of the Vel d'Hiv roundup, borrows its title from a passage of the song by Goldman.
- In 2012, Amel Bent covered it on the album Génération Goldman.