My Canary Yellow Star, Eva Wiseman
Fifteen-year-old Marta was working on math equations when the principal abruptly entered her classroom to announce that the German army had invaded their city of Budapest, Hungary, and her Jewish school was closed. The day was March 19, 1944. It began a year in which Marta would lose her home, her father, her grandmother, her aunt and her first love. Yet Marta was not deported to a concentration camp in Poland. She suffered the humiliation, starvation and cruelty of the Budapest Ghetto. This is a...
