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From Publishers Weekly
Siegal takes up where she left off in Upon the Head of the Goat, the Newbery Honor book that etched on readers' minds the fate of Hungarian Jews under the Nazis. Now Hitler's thugs have fled Bergen-Belsen in 1945, leaving Piri Davidowitz, her sister Iboya and the other prisoners to be freed by the British army. Piri is starving and critically ill, sent to a hospital to recover and, after a long time, released to go with Iboya to Sweden. The girls find work and Piri believes she has found a home with gentle people she calls Mamma and Papa. She falls in love, too, and it's hard for her to decide, finally, to sail with Iboya to a new life in the U.S. The book ends aboard ship where Piri and a young man, Fritz, are conversing. He exonerates all the Germans, blaming only Hitler ("with his sick brain") of complicity in the murders of 11 million people. It's stunning to compare Fritz's posture to the British liberators' outrage and grief at witnessing the conditions in the camp, the dead and dying victims of the glorious Third Reich. Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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From School Library Journal
Grade 8 Up The author of Upon the Head of the Goat: a Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 (Farrar, 1981) continues her autobiography in this outstanding description of the years just after the war. The book opens on the eve of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and recounts Piri's experiences as a patient in a Red Cross hospital; as a student in a Swedish school for refugees; and as the adopted daughter of a loving Christian family in the Swedish countryside. Piri has survived in large part because of the support of her older sister, Iboya. Siegal emphasizes the bond between the two sisters and between them and their fellow survivors as they search for remaining friends and family and attempt to rebuild their lives. The book concludes poignantly, as Piri and Iboya leave their new friends in Sweden for America, where relatives they've never met await them. The narrative gracefully interweaves political and philosophical issues with universal adolescent concerns. One major theme, for example, is the search for identity, which is expressed among the various survivors through Zionism, assimilation and religion. In Piri, the trauma of losing her family, home and way of life is exacerbated by the normal problems of burgeoning adulthood. Some readers may be confused by the many people and places who are mentioned but not identified , but Siegal's strong characterizations, perceptive observations and compelling storytelling more than make up for this weakness. A moving, thought-provoking story. Ruth Horowitz, Notre Dame Academy Girls High School Library, Los AngelesCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Product details
Age Range: 12 and up
Grade Level: 7 - 9
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR); 1st edition (October 1, 1985)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0374327602
ISBN-13: 978-0374327606
Product Dimensions:
6 x 1 x 8.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
Average Customer Review:
3.8 out of 5 stars
10 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#2,091,785 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
It is a wonderful account of a very sensitive yet girl of great moral reserves, finding her way in a post-concentration campexistence, with a shrewd and totally engaging approach in Sweden, which may simply have been on a different planet from herexperiences in a war-torn Europe in 1944-1945.It is a great pity that there does not seem to be a follow on from when she arrives in the United States and the ensuing years.The photograph on the back-flap of the cover seems to provide a commitment to life which helped her to cope and simplyembodies a spirit that even Hitler could not conquer.This book should be read by everyone. The style, the world-view, the multiple predicaments mirror to some degree the predicamentsof all of humanity, intensified by the pain of any survivor experience. I wish that she would publish the sequel, as to how thehealing process helped to cope with the loss of her beloved family. Inevitably they remain alive to all decent minded people thanks to the book.Yet one mourns with the author their cruel physical fate and feels the loss of life on a very personal level.
I read this book after reading Upon the Head of the Goat by the same author. Upon the Head of Goat is a rare first hand experience of a child during World War II and life in a concentration camp. Grace in the Wilderness continues where the first left off and we find out what happened to this young lady after she was saved by the allied forces. I cried so reading both these books and would love to meet Aranka Siegal, I believe she is still alive but she has to be quite old now. My life will never be the same after reading this first hand account of her life. Both of these books are spectacular, the first won a Newbery Award.
It was a good follow up to the 2nd book and filled in a lot of details of her life. Really enjoyed it.y
If anyone read only this book without having read "Upon the Head of a Goat" (the author's first memoir), he/she would likely give this book a thumbs down as being a bit of a slow, emotional, teenage rollercoaster as the author recuperates from her Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz experiences in a new land (Sweden), and reconnects with old friends, makes new friends, boyfriends, and even a new family.In the previous book, the author leaves the reader hanging as she is boarding the freight car with her mother, two sisters and baby brother. In a flashback paragraph from her new Swedish home, we learn that the Davidowitz family was separated by their ages and the mother chose to go with the little children since she could not bear to see them go alone to their deaths.If the book contained more about the camp experience, perhaps it would be more positively reviewed by the young people here on this site. But everyone deserves to have his or her experience told the way she/he chooses to tell it. This is how this person chooses to tell it. If she has not put in 'enough' about the camps, then that is her right. It is hard to imagine being able to write about it at all.A teenager today might not relate to the issues Piri faced in dating, because of different cultural values today, but one who can appreciate perspectives of time and place would certainly find this book valuable and still beautifully written.It was a very personal and exposed story of youth, and I am grateful to the author for having written it. It was shocking to read the young German man's denial of the German peoples' role in this horrible war, and even more surprising to discover our heroine following him up the steps for a drink at the end of the book.Perhaps Mrs. Siegal has one more tale for us about her transition to the U.S. What a gifted writer. I would love to read more of her prose.
(Actually, this is a 4.5 star rating.)This is a very memorable book, like the first book 'Upon the Head of the Goat' (I read them both at age fifteen, in the spring of 1995, haven't reread them yet, and yet can still vividly rememeber a lot of names, details, and events from both as though I'd only finished reading them yesterday). However, in hindsight it seems as though something is missing, and not just all of the friends and family members who were killed by the Nazis. A lot of sequels to books that were about the Shoah, whether fiction or memoir, or whether the characters were in camps, ghettos, in hiding, or just continually on the run, are kind of a letdown. A lot of intense things happened before, what with daily deprivations, increasing regulations, friends, neighbours, and relatives murdered, taken into ghettos, camps, prisons, and death marches, but the sequels to such books seem more like a routine tale of life after the War, no constant "What's going to happen next?" now that the danger is past and the Allies have assumed protective control of the European nations. Though this book, while being guilty of being mundane in comparison with what went before, is one of the better sequels.The early part of the book is the most compelling, during the final days Piri and her older sister Iboya spend at Bergen-Belsen before the liberation. Piri is very sick and has to spend a long time in the makeshift hospital the Allies set up, and then she and Iboya are off to Sweden to begin new lives, along with their friend Dora (who lost her mother about six months after they were taken to the camp they were in, and is now an einer allen, or one alone in the world) and the two Berger girls, the daughters of the woman who pulled Piri into line with them after she had been selected to stay behind in the camp since she was so weak. Mrs. Berger switched Piri with another woman who had been marching with them in the fünfferreihe (row of five prisoners). They meet a lot of fellow survivors in Sweden, including Herschel, who becomes Dora's boyfriend, and David, who becomes Piri's boyfriend for a short time. Piri and Iboya also discover that one of their four sisters, Etu, has survived too. Etu was living in their old house in Hungary, along with her new husband Geza, but now she wants to go to Palestine, where David and several of his friends are also going.Maybe it's shellshock or denial, but in hindsight I don't really recall some of the strong emotions displayed in other after-the-war narratives present in Piri or Iboya, at least not for long stretches of time, just an occasional moment of reflection that they almost didn't have one another, or remembering back to something awful that happened, like how Piri lost her best friend Judi. I know that no news was usually bad news, and the longer there was no news, the worse it probably was, but where is the frantic searching for their other relatives that I see so often in other memoirs of this sort, even denying that they died and that maybe the Red Cross got it wrong? Other survivors even hold out hope for decades that that other person miraculously survived and is alive somewhere, constantly wondering, placing ads, asking everyone they see in refugee centers or walking by on the road after liberation. When do they even attempt to look for Rózsi, Lilli, Lájos, Manci, even their stepfather, or try to find out what happened to them if they're pretty sure they're dead? Piri suggests looking for their stepfather, but Iboya says if he survived the Russian pow camp, he knew what happened and wouldn't think any of them survived. So they won't even look for him so that if he DID survive, he'd know at least Piri, Etu, and Iboya are all still alive? Only towards the end does Piri finally seem to be hit by the full emotional impact of what has happened. I also, in hindsight, don't agree with how they decided to go to America to be with some aunt they've never met, over staying in their new haven in Sweden, among all of their friends and surrogate family, or going to Palestine with Etu. Etu hasn't been in any camps, but at least she has more of a shared sense of what they had to suffer through, far more than some relative they've never met in America will ever! And why wouldn't they want to be reunited with their only sibling left, the way Etu wanted it to be? Also, Piri and Iboya obviously went through a lot together, yet Piri is content to live with a childless older couple who adopts her, while Iboya is away living in some type of workers' dormitory? In other narratives I've read, the friends or siblings who went through that sort of thing together were inseparable; they wouldn't have been okay with going in different directions so soon after that intense bonding experience. They came so close to losing one another before, so why live apart instead of sticking extremely close together? The other survivors I've read postwar books by want to be close together for comfort and reassurance that they're still there and together; they wouldn't be fine with splitting up!I also would have liked to have had at least one chapter dealing with their new life in America, or maybe just one devoted to the emotional turmoil within. It is one of the better postwar books out there, but still leaves something lacking, both in emotions and in the rather bland life they lead in Sweden after getting used to their new home.
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