An autobiographical account of rural and urban circumstances relating to Hitler’s take-over of Hungary and one family’s subsequent fate in a concentration camp. Restraint and integrity mark this unique personal narrative told through young Piri’s point of view. A 1982 Newbery Honor Book. (11 years and older)

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.