description: In this award-winning book, Aranka Siegal tells the story of her family and her life in Hungary as a child. In 1944 she and her family were taken to Auschwitz. 
title: Upon the Head of a Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-44
titlecomplete: Upon the Head of a Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-44 
genres: Biography, War, Memoir, Nonfiction, Middle Grade, Holocaust, Biography Memoir, Hungary, History, World War II
ratings_count: 1524
places: Hungary
series: Piri
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux