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Upon the Head of the Goat

by Aranka Siegal

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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.

Aranka SiegalBiographyChildhood and youthEthnic relationsHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)JewsJuvenile literaturePersonal narrativesSocial life and customsNewbery HonorChildren's fictionGoats, fiction