Yellow Star

Yellow star is a term that could refer to:

  • A yellow star in Stellar classification
  • A yellow badge, a cloth patch that Jews were ordered to wear on their clothes
  • Any plant of Hypoxis genus in the Hypoxidaceae family
  • A song by Donovan from his album Essence to Essence
  • The Yellow Star – The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45, a 1980 documentary film
  • Yellow Star (book), a 2006 children's novel describing life in the Lodz Ghetto during World War II.

Famous quotes containing the words yellow and/or star:

    “The twelve-thousand-day honeymoon
    is over.
    Hands crumble like clay,
    the mouth, its bewildered tongue,
    turns yellow with pain....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “I put the gold star up in the front window
    beside the flag. Alterations is what I know
    and what I did: hems, gussets and seams.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)