Upon the Head of the Goat

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