Yellow Star

Yellow Star

Yellow Star is a fantastic Holocaust novel. It is 241 pages of
adventure, torture, and sadness by Jennifer Roy.Syvia, just a 6 year old is put in a Ghetto for Jews. Syvia is the youngest out of a family of 4. Her sister Dora, her mother, and dad go to work for the Ghetto. Eventually, she finds friends, Hava and Itka. The Lodz Ghetto isn’t your typical neighborhood. Wherever you go you have to watch your back otherwise the Nazis will get it. Plus another thing to worry about: FOOD! You either get it moldy or you don’t get anything! If you didn’t work most likely you weren’t fed. Just as everybody starts to get used to life people start disappearing. Concentration Camps. That’s where everybody’s going. Whether you were tricked into “Volunteering”, were too young, too old, or too sick to work you were sent there. All children were ordered to get on the train and go. Syvia didn’t. She hid in a cemetery with her dad for every night for weeks. Until the Nazis found where they were hiding. Then the Nazi’s sent all on the train. When it was time to get on Syvia’s Papa has to decide.

His family went to the side of death. He went to the side to help clean up the Lodz Ghetto. He refused to leave his family. He chose the side of death. When it was time to get on the train he didn’t. The family stayed to help clean up. The Nazis didn’t care. So Syvia has to stay in a cellar with other children. They’re found! When the Nazis found them they took them outside. The one that grabbed Syvia and kicked her three times. Now the kids stay with the adults because they fought back. Bombs. The Russian are dropping bombs on the Ghetto! They have to get out. When they got out all 800 ran to the flour house. They stayed there until 3 days later the bombing starts again. Syvia is brave.

Syvia is a brave little girl. Syvia saved them! She woke people up and got them out of the flour house. Before they were bombed to death. Another example of her bravery was when she went outside to get a pear. First of there wasn’t supposed to be children in the ghetto. Second of all the fruit was only supposed to be for the Nazis. In my opinion she is very brave.