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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.
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About the Author:
Aranka Siegal’s Holocaust novels are based on her own experiences as a child. She lives in Miami, Florida.
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" At the outbreak of World War II, 9-year-old Piri is visiting her grandmother in the Ukrainian countryside and is unable to return to her family in the Hungarian town of Beregsza sz. Aranka Siegal, the Piri of the narrative, finally comes home the following year but finds her life forever changed." - Starred, "School Library Journal"
" This is a book that should be read by all those interested in the Holocaust and what it did to young and old." - Isaac Bashevis Singer
" A simple and beautiful account of the life of a Jewish family as, step by step, war and anti-Semitism creep closer to the Hungarian town in which they live, finally engulfing them." - "The New Yorker"
"At the outbreak of World War II, 9-year-old Piri is visiting her grandmother in the Ukrainian countryside and is unable to return to her family in the Hungarian town of Beregszasz. Aranka Siegal, the Piri of the narrative, finally comes home the following year but finds her life forever changed." - Starred, "School Library Journal""This is a book that should be read by all those interested in the Holocaust and what it did to young and old." - Isaac Bashevis Singer"A simple and beautiful account of the life of a Jewish family as, step by step, war and anti-Semitism creep closer to the Hungarian town in which they live, finally engulfing them." - "The New Yorker"
" This is a book that should be read by all those interested in the Holocaust and what it did to young and old." - Isaac Bashevis Singer
" A simple and beautiful account of the life of a Jewish family as, step by step, war and anti-Semitism creep closer to the Hungarian town in which they live, finally engulfing them." - "The New Yorker"
"At the outbreak of World War II, 9-year-old Piri is visiting her grandmother in the Ukrainian countryside and is unable to return to her family in the Hungarian town of Beregszasz. Aranka Siegal, the Piri of the narrative, finally comes home the following year but finds her life forever changed." - Starred, "School Library Journal""This is a book that should be read by all those interested in the Holocaust and what it did to young and old." - Isaac Bashevis Singer"A simple and beautiful account of the life of a Jewish family as, step by step, war and anti-Semitism creep closer to the Hungarian town in which they live, finally engulfing them." - "The New Yorker"
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- ISBN 10 061384601X
- ISBN 13 9780613846011
- BindingHardcover
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