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      Upon the Head of the Goat

      by Aranka Siegal
      Published
      Jun 1968
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      The classic true story of one child's experiences during the holocaust.

      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.


      Upon the Head of the Goat       is the winner of the 1982 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a 1982 Newbery Honor Book.

      "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

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      General Fiction

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      Young Adult / Teens

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      First Edition Jun 1968 Signet ISBN 0451146786
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      Mar 2003 Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR ISBN 1466832584
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