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Who is Aranka Siegal?

Aranka Siegal is a writer, Holocaust survivor, and recipient of the Newbery Honor and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, both awarded to her in She is the author of three books, the best known of which is Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary , a memoir of her childhood in Hungary before her month imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camps, Auschwitz – Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen. Other works of hers include Grace in the Wilderness: After the Liberation and Memories of Babi. Her novels are sold worldwide, and have been translated into several different languages including, but not limited to, English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, and German. Siegal herself speaks six languages and is the fifth child of seven children.

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Berehove

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Aranka Siegal (born Aranka Meizlik; June 11, ) is a writer, Holocaust survivor, and recipient of the Newbery Honor and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, both awarded to her in

She is the author of three books, the best known of which is Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary , a memoir of her childhood in Hungary before her month imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camps, Auschwitz–Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen.

Other works include Grace in the Wilderness: After the Liberation and Memories of Babi.

Her novels are sold worldwide and have been translated into several different languages including, but not limited to, English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Chinese, Sinhala and German.

Aranka writes for young people hoping "that having read my story they will remember the meaning of "scapegoat" and refuse ever to participate in spreading prejudice I believe in the importance of my message and its inherent truth as History".

During World War II, Aranka was thirteen years old. She, her mother, and her siblings, Iboya, Sándor, and Joli, were forcibly moved from their home to the Beregszász brick factory, which had been turned into a ghetto to house Jews. At the time of their departure, Siegal's stepfather, Ignac Davidowitz, was serving in the Hungarian Second Army on the Russian front. Meanwhile, her older sister, Roszi, was in Komjaty with their grandmother, and her other older sister, Etus, was in Budapest. Shortly before the family's move to the ghetto, however, some of her relatives had already been taken away by the Nazis: Lilli (Siegal's older sister), Lajos (Lilli's husband), and Manci (Lilli and Lajos's baby daughter).

Soon after Aranka Siegal and her family had arrived in the ghetto, they were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in Upon their arrival on May 9, , she and Iboya, were separated from the rest of the family, and they never saw them again. Eventually, the two girls were sent to another concentration camp, Christianstadt, to work and later, forced to the death march during six weeks to Bergen-Belsen.

Little more than half a year had passed since their initial arrival

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