Author: Siegal, Aranka,
Title: Upon the Head of the Goat: a childhood in Hungary 1939-1944.
Description: NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1981). 1st prntg. VG in VG hardback. A childhood in Hungary 1939-1944. 9 year old Piri often visited her grandmother's farm in the Ukraine but a 1939 war broke out. out along the border and she could not return home to Beregszasz, Hungary. A year later when she returned many things had changed. Her stepfather had been returned back into the army amH her mother ran the household. Her friends were distant and she was forbidden to return to public school. Food was obtained with ration coupons but food was not always available after a curfew was imposed on Jews . Then the police took her sister Lilli away. And no one could find out what had happpened to her. She had to wear the star of David to her clothing and soon they were herded into a ghetto and could take with them only what they could carry. Then they were boarded onto a train for Beregszasz Hundagy. DJ edges tanned. Crease to front endpaper.

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