Title: Upon the Head of the Goat
Description: 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.
Subjects: Aranka Siegal, Biography, Childhood and youth, Ethnic relations, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews, Juvenile literature, Personal narratives, Social life and customs, Newbery Honor, Children's fiction, Goats, fiction, Juden, Jews, soviet union, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), juvenile literature, Ukraine, juvenile literature, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, juvenile literature, Ukraine, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, hungarian, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, Hungary, history, World war, 1939-1945, biography
Places: Beregovo, Beregovo (Ukraine), Berehove, Berehove (Ukraine), Hungary, Ukraine
People: Aranka Siegal