An edition of Upon the Head of the Goat (1968)
Upon the head of the goat
a childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944
By Aranka Siegal
Publish Date
2003
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Language
eng
Pages
213
Description:
Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.
subjects: Aranka Siegal, Biography, Childhood and youth, Ethnic relations, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews, Juvenile literature, Personal narratives, Social life and customs, Newbery Honor, Children's fiction, Goats, fiction, Juden, Jews, soviet union, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), juvenile literature, Ukraine, juvenile literature, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, juvenile literature, Ukraine, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, hungarian, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, Hungary, history, World war, 1939-1945, biography
People: Aranka Siegal
Places: Beregovo, Beregovo (Ukraine), Berehove, Berehove (Ukraine), Hungary, Ukraine