[.ca] Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 (ISBN 0374480796)

upon the head of the goat:
The book,upon the head of the goat written by Aranka Seigal,is about childhood in Hungary during world war 2.Piri,a nine year old girl has a hard time growing up because she is a Jew.She goes to her grandmother`s in Kamjaty for her summer vacation and since there was a war between the borders her visit becomes a year long stay.when she is finally able to return home she and her family have a hard life and there has been many changes.She and her family were sent to a Ghetto that was an old brick factory.They would later be sent to Auschwitz.I rocommend this book because I think you really get to feel how hard it was to grow up in Hungary.

Upon the Head of the Goat:
It was a very interesting and informing book. It was easy to feel for the characters. I highly recommend it for people who are interested in the lives of young holocaust victims.

Upon the Head of the Goat:
A powerful story about a family in the grip of Nazi Gremany. So moving, I was glad it was a novel. The pain of seeing family members brutalized by the German soldiers is something I wish our young people could understand the privelges they have. Recommed this work

The best learning experience about the holocaust:
I read this book last year at Chelsea Public school and just being able to talk to Aranka about her experience was really neat, it made me think alot about how peole were treated and that they shouldnt have been treatedthat way. The book did alot for me, and it made me feel very upset the way that things happend

The Wrong Goat:
In this narrative we see through childish eyes an ordinary family trying to hold on to decency and the dignity of the individual while their country (Hungary) falls into ruin under the jackboot of tyranny. We come to understand the worth of the family and the wrongness of the conquerors that are trying to turn them into "Schwein." Though they have separated innocent people out and have attempted to fasten all the ills of society upon them, they themselves are most in need of the Biblical goat to carry away their sins upon its head, and cannot find one.