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.
Genres
- Aranka Siegal
- Biography
- Childhood and youth
- Ethnic relations
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Jews
- Juvenile literature
- Personal narratives
- Social life and customs
- Newbery Honor
- Children's fiction
- Goats, fiction
- Juden
- Jews, soviet union
- Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), juvenile literature
- Ukraine, juvenile literature
- Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, juvenile literature
- Ukraine
- World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, hungarian
- World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives
- Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives
- Hungary, history
- World war, 1939-1945, biography
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