UPON THE HEAD OF THE GOAT - A CHILDHOOD IN HUNGARY 1939-1944

"A sensitive portrait of a remarkable young girl and her family" - School Library Journal "Should be read by all those who are interested in the holocaust and what it did to young and old" - Isaac Bashevis Singer "Brings the truth home about a time that we must neither forget nor deny" - Philadelphia Inquirer Although based on Aranka Siegal's own childhood experiences, to nine-year-old Piri Davidowitz war was only a word until the conquering soldiers came, closing the borders and turning her summer vacation at her's grandmother's Ukranian farm into a year-long stay - a year during which she learned far too much about fear and fighting. Returning to her home in hungary when the borders reopened, Piri discovered that life would never be the same again. For with Hitler in power, no place was safe if you were jewish...