Upon the Head of the Goat
About this book
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
- children's fiction
- ethnic relations
- goats, fiction
- holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)
- holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), juvenile literature
- holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives
- holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, juvenile literature
- hungary, history
- jews
- jews, soviet union
- juden
- juvenile literature
- newbery honor
- personal narratives
- social life and customs
- ukraine
- ukraine, juvenile literature
- world war, 1939-1945, biography
- world war, 1939-1945, personal narratives
- world war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, hungarian