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

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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. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Review
"Through the description of the destruction of this family, the enormity of the annihilation of European Jewry is shown...A sensitive portrait of a remarkable young girl and her family"-Starred School Library Journal

"This is a book that should be read by all those who are interested in the Holocaust and what it did to young and old" -Isaac Bashevis Singer



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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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