Upon the Head of the Goat

A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944

Kids, Religion, Judaism, People and Places, History, Holocaust, Biography, Non-Fiction, Historical
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Author: Aranka Siegal ISBN: 9781466832589
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Publication: March 24, 2003
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Language: English
Author: Aranka Siegal
ISBN: 9781466832589
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Publication: March 24, 2003
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Language: English

The classic true story of one child's experiences during the holocaust.

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.

Upon the Head of the Goat is the winner of the 1982 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a 1982 Newbery Honor Book.

“This is a book that should be read by all those interested in the Holocaust and what it did to young and old.” —Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The classic true story of one child's experiences during the holocaust.

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.

Upon the Head of the Goat is the winner of the 1982 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a 1982 Newbery Honor Book.

“This is a book that should be read by all those interested in the Holocaust and what it did to young and old.” —Isaac Bashevis Singer

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