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Hawaii, December 7, 1941. Tomikazu's world is destroyed when Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese. Tomi's father and grandfather, both born in Japan, are arrested and Tomi must help his mother and sister survive. It's a terrifying time to be Japanese American.
Upon the Head of the Goat
Aranka Siegal
Young Adult
5 Cassettes,
7.25 hours
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.