Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 - Softcover

Siegal, Aranka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812410378 ISBN 13: 9780812410372

Verlag: PERFECTION LEARNING CORP, 2003

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Book by Siegal Aranka

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Críticas:

" At the outbreak of World War II, 9-year-old Piri is visiting her grandmother in the Ukrainian countryside and is unable to return to her family in the Hungarian town of Beregsza sz. Aranka Siegal, the Piri of the narrative, finally comes home the following year but finds her life forever changed." - Starred, "School Library Journal"
" 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
" A simple and beautiful account of the life of a Jewish family as, step by step, war and anti-Semitism creep closer to the Hungarian town in which they live, finally engulfing them." - "The New Yorker"
"At the outbreak of World War II, 9-year-old Piri is visiting her grandmother in the Ukrainian countryside and is unable to return to her family in the Hungarian town of Beregszasz. Aranka Siegal, the Piri of the narrative, finally comes home the following year but finds her life forever changed." - Starred, "School Library Journal""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"A simple and beautiful account of the life of a Jewish family as, step by step, war and anti-Semitism creep closer to the Hungarian town in which they live, finally engulfing them." - "The New Yorker"

Reseña del editor:

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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• Verlag: PERFECTION LEARNING CORP
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0812410378
• ISBN 13: 9780812410372
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 213