Author

Publication

1981 - Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

53,250 words, Guess

Page Count

213 pages

Identifiers

and 6 more
  • LibraryThing272823
  • Goodreads3750233
  • Library of Congress Control Number81012642
  • OCLC Control Number7797019
  • Better World Books9780374380595
  • Open LibraryOL4266685M

Classifications

  • DDC947/.718
  • DDCB
  • LCCDS135.R95 S547 1981
and 2 more
  • LCCDS135.R95 S547 2003
  • LCCDK511.Z3

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

Topics

JewsJudenBiographyNewbery HonorSiegal, ArankaGoats, fictionEthnic relations

Places

UkraineHungaryBerehoveBeregovoBerehove (Ukraine)Beregovo (Ukraine)

People

Aranka Siegal

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