Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy is a Holocaust biography written in verse. Roy's aunt Sylvia was one of 12 children to survive the forced settlement in the Lodz ghetto. Of the 270,000 Jews and Gypsies living in this ghetto, there were only about 800 survivors.
Roy states that she attempted to write her aunt's story in a variety of styles: non-fiction, third person, but finally settled on first person. Written using her aunt's own words, each verse expresses a small child's view of her changing world. As the years pass by, you can sense Sylvia's better understanding of ghetto and her daily fear.
I enjoyed the first person perspective and my heart filled with sadness imagining my daughter rather than Sylvia. How fortunate we are that she shared her story.
Friday, October 29, 2010
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