Awards & Winners

Aranka Siegal

Date of Birth 10-June-1930
Place of Birth Berehove
(Ukraine, Berehove Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast)
Nationality Czechoslovakia
Also know as Aranka Davidowitz
Profession Writer
Aranka 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. Other works of hers include Grace in the Wilderness: After the Liberation 1945-1948 and Memories of Babi. Her novels are sold worldwide, and have been translated into several different languages including, but not limited to, English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, and German. Siegal herself speaks six languages and is the fifth child of seven children.

Awards by Aranka Siegal

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1982


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944