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Aranka Siegal
born 1930
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryAranka Siegal is a writer, Holocaust survivor, and recipient of the Newbery Honor and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, both awarded to her in 1982. She is the author of three books, the best known of which is Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1930-1944, a memoir of her childhood in Hungary before her 12-month imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camps, Auschwitz – Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
June 10, 1930
Berehove
Citizenship
United States · Czechoslovakia
Occupations & fields
memoiristwriter
- Field and occupation
- americká spisovatelka
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