Alicia
my story
by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
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A Polish Jew, the author re-creates her efforts to survive in Nazi-dominated, war-torn Poland. Between the ages of ten and 15, she suffered terrible hardships and encountered numerous brushes with death. This is a potentially useful addition to Holocaust literature, for although she never experienced the death camps, Appleman-Jurman lived in constant peril and managed to survive only through an extraordinary combination of luck and street sense. Unfortunately, the heavy use of dialogue reconstructed more than 40 years later has an unsettling effect on the mood and plausibility of this interesting and frequently horrifying survival narrative. Still, public libraries should consider. Mark R. Yerburgh, Trinity Coll. Lib., Burlington, Vt.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Biography, Ethnic relations, Holocaust survivors, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jewish Refugees, Jews, Persecutions, Personal narratives, Jews, persecutions, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, Ethnic & race relations, Russian & soviet history, Historical biography, Eastern european history, Jewish - biography, Jewish history, Diplomacy & international relationsPeople
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Alicia: My Story
October 1999, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding
in English
0833554190 9780833554192
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Alicia: My Story (Charnwood Large Print Library Series)
May 1990, Ulverscroft Large Print
Hardcover
in English
- Large Prnt edition
0708985335 9780708985335
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Alicia: Memoirs of a Survivor
March 23, 1990, Transworld Publishers Ltd
Paperback
0553175513 9780553175516
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Alicia: My Story
December 1989, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
0606197419 9780606197410
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First Sentence
"First they killed my brother Moshe. . . ."
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A young girl's experience of the Nazi pogrom in her Polish hometown is related with an immediacy undimmed by time in her autobiography. In 1942, the author and her family undergo a brutal separation. Thirteen-year-old Alicia escapes her captors, fleeing through fields and woods, encountering fellow refugees and occasionally finding safe harbors. Although she sees her mother's wanton murder and endures physical and mental deprivation, the teenager is supported by faith in family and in the goodness of people. Capable of rallying others, she eventually heads a group who settle in Palestine. In 1949, she marries an American in Haifa and moves to the United States. Long and on occasion rambling, her story contributes to an infamous history as a tale, not only of survival, but of active resistance to oppression.
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