Aranka Siegal / Aranka Meizlik (F / Hungary, 1930), Holocaust survivor
Aranka Siegal / Aranka Meizlik (F / Hungary, 1930), Holocaust survivor.
- KEYWORDS : <Ghetto> <Auschwitz> <Bergen-Belsen> <Liberation of Bergen-Belsen> -- <Sweden> <United States>
- MEMOIRS : Upon the Head of the Goat'>' (1981)
Biography
Aranka Meizlik was born to Meyer and Rise Meizlik in Beregszász, Czechoslovakia (present-day Berehove, Ukraine).
Sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, she was separated from her family and was only with her elder sister, Iboya. They were sent to work in Christiansted's kitchen and left for the walk to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In April 1945, she and her sister were liberated by Field Marshal Montgomery's 21st Army and taken to Sweden by the Swedish Red Cross. They immigrated to the United States in 1948.
Book : Upon the Head of the Goat (1981)
- Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary (New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981).
"The classic true story of one child's experiences during the holocaust, who witnesses the destruction of her family at the hands of the Nazis during World War II ... 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 ... Upon the Head of the Goat is the winner of the 1982 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a 1982 Newbery Honor Book."--Publisher description.