Grace in the Wilderness, Aranka Siegal
Grace in the Wilderness, Aranka Siegal
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Grace in the Wilderness
After the Liberation 1945-1948

Author: Aranka Siegal

Narrator: Christina Moore

Unabridged: 6 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/30/2012

Synopsis

Because she is Jewish, 14 year-old Piri has been held prisoner in Nazi concentration camps for two years. She is freed when Bergen-Belsen is liberated, but she is very ill and has deep psychological scars. In a voice full of innocence and courage, Piri tells how she got through the first years after the Holocaust. Piri and her sisters are taken by the Red Cross to Sweden, where people prove to be most generous and humane. But Piri still longs for her home in Hungary. As she makes friends, falls in love, and goes to live with a Swedish foster family, Piri shares her most intimate feelings and thoughts. Aranka Siegal is the author of the Newberry award-winning Upon the Head of the Goat. In this moving sequel, Christina Moore's expressive performance as Piri intensifies the bittersweet effect of her compelling story.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carolyn

This is a holocaust story. This is a young adult book, and this is the last book I read for 2020. This story is about Hungary sisters. She tells a powerful, moving, graphic and takes a lot of courage and endurance ever I read, and I couldn’t put down in a day. This is another Piri was only 14 years......more

Goodreads review by Leslie

This sequel to UPON THE HEAD OF THE GOAT is more suited to mid-teens and older, as the Grace struggles with her maturity and developing sexuality in the years after the war. Although Grace struggles in ways that are unique to someone who has experienced the traumatic experience of war and holocaust,......more

Goodreads review by Doris

I felt this book was just so-so. Perhaps if I had read the author's previous book about Piri and Iboya's family in Hungary I would have understood this book better. There were so many characters I could not keep track of them. I thought it was really nice that the Swedish people took in the refugees......more

Goodreads review by Mary

This is the story of two sisters who survived Bergen-Belsen and were on their way to finding a new life for themselves. I didn't like the ending because we don't really know what happened. They are on a ship (at the end) almost to America. You can hope that Piri found out what love is and lives happ......more

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