Creator Bio
Aranka Siegal
b. 1930
Born in Czechoslovakia, Aranka Siegal survived Auschwitz and spent the postwar years in Sweden before coming to New York in 1948. The author of two autobiographical novels and a radio show host, Siegal received the 1982 Newbery Honor Book award from the American Library Association.
Content by Aranka Siegal
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Upon the Head of a Goat: A Childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944
In April 1942, after months of probing and letter writing, Mother and Mrs. Gerber received letters telling them that Father’s troop was in a Russian prison camp. However, no word came from either of…