Yellow Star

Name: Yellow Star
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Author: Jennifer Roy
ISBN: 9781469215860

Author: Jennifer Roy

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 3 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 12/04/2012

Categories: Children's Fiction, Historical Stories, Biographical Stories

Synopsis

“In 1945 the war ended. The Germans surrendered, and the ghetto was liberated. Out of over a quarter of a million people, about 800 walked out of the ghetto. Of those who survived, only twelve were children. I was one of the twelve.” For more than fifty years after the war, Syvia, like many Holocaust survivors, did not talk about her experiences in the Lodz ghetto in Poland. She buried her past in order to move forward. But finally she decided it was time to share her story, and so she told it to her niece, who has re-told it here using free verse inspired by her aunt. This is the true story of Syvia Perlmutter—a story of courage, heartbreak, and finally survival despite the terrible circumstances in which she grew up. A timeline, historical notes, and an author’s note are included.

About Jennifer Roy

Jennifer Roy is the author of more than thirty books for children and young adults, including Israel: Discovering Cultures and Mindblind. A former Gifted and Talented teacher, she holds a BS in Psychology and an MA in Elementary Education. Yellow Star is based on the childhood of Jennifer’s aunt Sylvia, who provided extensive interviews as the author was writing this book. Jennifer Roy lives in upstate New York with her husband and son.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on December 30, 2008

It sounds like such a cliché but I really could not put down this book, and I read it in one day; I don’t know how many hours it took but even though I read slowly, it wasn’t many. This book is riveting. I’ve read many fiction and non-fiction books about the Holocaust and this is now one of my favor......more

Goodreads review by Laurie on November 26, 2016

Written in poetic form, the recollections and memories of one of the 12 children who survived the Lodz ghetto. Moving, simple, I finished it in two readings. Amazing book.......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on November 18, 2008

Like some other true WWII stories written for children, this has been published as fiction; I'm not sure why. I thought at first that the style was really going to annoy me (I wouldn't really call it free verse, myself, so much as just breaking up the lines), but after a couple of pages I got used to......more

Goodreads review by Ellie on August 10, 2018

What a touching story! It’s not easy to move me to tears but this book did just that. What I admired the most was not only it was a true story of a Holocaust survivor (author’s aunt Syvia) but the author’s decision to narrate it from a child’s perspective. Purposely told in easy, simple language, it......more