![]() Yellow Star is the outgrowth of Sylvia Perlmutter Rozines' recollections of life in the Łódź ghetto. Since its publication in 2006, the book has received multiple awards, starred reviews, and other accolades, and has been made into a likewise well-received audiobook. After the war, Syvia moved to the United States, married, and only much later told her story to Roy. ![]() Syvia, her older sister Dora, and her younger cousin Isaac were three of only twelve children who survived. The book covers Syvia's life as she grows from four and a half to ten years old in the ghetto. Roy added fictionalized dialogue, but did not otherwise alter the story. Roy tells the story of her aunt Syvia, who shared her childhood memories with Roy more than 50 years after the ghetto's liberation. ![]() Written in free verse, it depicts life through the eyes of a young Jewish girl whose family was forced into the Łódź Ghetto in 1939 during World War II. Yellow Star is a 2006 biographical children's novel by Jennifer Roy. ![]()
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