One way the Nazis mistreated the Jews during the Holocaust was by making discrimination against the Jews legal. The Nazis closed down a small section of the city, the ghetto, because …show more content…
When the children were hiding in the cellar after so long, the Nazis finally found them and pulled the children out of the cellar, but all the parents were standing there waiting to see what the Nazis were gonna do. (pg. 200) After the Nazis gave the children back to their families, they started getting bombed by the Russians, and Syvia's family ran to find a place to hide. (pg 210) In the middle of the night, Syvia woke up because she heard something, and looked out the window to see that the Nazis were leavingSyvia woke her family up, and they ran somewhere away from buildings so they wouldn’t get caught on fire. They ran to the courtyard and on the way, they found a bunch of Jews. (pg. 226) When the bombing stopped, they saw some horses and found out it was the Russians. The Russians told the Jews they were safe and the Nazis wouldn’t come back, so the Russians started cutting down the fence and the Jews were saved! (pg. 226) They hoped for the best and got the best. “Yellow Star” was great book with a great perspective of what the Holocaust was like. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who asked because it was so good and helped me understand to holocaust better. I hoped you thought this book sounded like a good