Upon the Head of the Goat

A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944

by Aranka Siegal

The author, who is called Piri in the narrative, describes her experiences as a Jewish girl in Hungary during World War II. Although Piri's mother attempts to hold the family together and preserve their religious traditions, Piri experiences the slow but ever increasing persecution of the Jewish people in her town of Beregszasz. Unable to escape Hungary, the family witnesses the Nazi invasion of Beregszasz after which they are stripped of all rights and forced to live in a Jewish ghetto. The book concludes in 1944 when Piri and her family are transported to Auschwitz. A 1982 Newbery Honor Book.

Available editions of Upon the Head of the Goat

	9780374480790, Paperback, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2003 $2.99 (New) Other copies of 9780374480790

	9780140369663, Paperback, Penguin Group USA, 1994 $1.00 (Used - Good) Other copies of 9780140369663

	9780788706882, Audio Cassette, Recorded Books, 1999 $1.00 (Used - Good) Other copies of 9780788706882

	9780451167699, Paperback, New Amer Library, 1990 $1.00 (Good) Other copies of 9780451167699

	9780374380595, Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1981 $1.00 (Used - Good) Other copies of 9780374380595

Publisher Notes

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.

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From the time I was five my mother would send me from Beregszasz to spend the summers with my grandparents in Komjaty. The open fields, the river, and the forest of this Ukrainian village became my playground. The colors of the wild flowers, the feel of the forest, the sound of the water, the humming of the insects, the warmth of the animals--these experiences became the play from which I learned so much.

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