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Upon the Head of the Goat

A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944

by Aranka Siegal
Christina Moore
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In 1939, nine-year-old Piri is happy to spend her spring vacation at her grandmother Babi's house in the Ukrainian countryside. There, Piri freely enjoys the meadows, rivers and wildflowers. In her busy household, Babi makes sure her granddaughter continues to speak Yiddish and observe the Sabbath. But there is a darker side to this paradise. The Hungarian soldiers riding through the beautiful landscape are a threat not only to the Ukrainians but also to Jews. And when Piri returns to Hungary, she hears rumors of the ghettos. Gradually, the young girl realizes that the world she loves has changed forever. Aranka Siegal's powerful story is drawn from her own life. She was a survivor of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. A Newbery Honor Book and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, Upon the Head of the Goat creates a personal view of the Holocaust that was mirrored in countless lives during that ominous time.

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  • Release date

    December 1, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781470337865
      • File size: 206569 KB
      • Duration: 07:10:21

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 830
    • Text Difficulty: 4-5

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Christina Moore reads this all-too-short story of Piri Davidowitz with an earnest voice filled with all the hope and promise of youthful expectation. Nine-year-old Piri is visiting her grandmother, Babi, when Hitler invades Poland in 1939. For Ukrainian Jews living under occupation, nationalities and boundaries come to mean nothing. Aranka Siegal, herself a survivor of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, writes this Newbery Honor Book from her own experience, and Moore's voice, growing tired and weary as the trains arrive to take Piri away, makes that experience all the more poignant. P.E.F. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 2, 1994
      These memoirs of a Hungarian girl liberated from Bergen-Belsen, said PW , are among ``the most powerful accounts yet written by a survivor of the Third Reich.'' Ages 12-up.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:830
  • Text Difficulty:4-5

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