Alicia
Memoirs of A Survivor
$32.18
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
21 March 2021
Summary
A remarkable Holocaust memoir, a powerful testament to human courage and fortitude, for readers of Edith Eger’s The Choice.
“This memoir is heartbreaking.” – Elie Wiesel, author of Night
Alicia Jurman is five-years-old when her story begins. It is 1935 and she is living in the East Polish town of Buczacz. Although brought up in an atmosphere of anti-Semitism, nothing could have prepared her for the Russian invasion of Poland and the full horror of the Nazi Oc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857502612 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857502611 |
| Author: | Alicia Appleman-Jurman |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bantam Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 21 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 27mm |
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Critics Review
An impressive memoir of a courageous, forthright individual who refused to accept the Holocaust as ‘God’s Will”
Profoundly observed… amid all this ferocious bravery, small, sweet details emerge with a rending power. * New York Times *
Gripping, assiduously detailed… the author serves as a model of active home-front heroism * Kirkus *
A powerful, intimate, searingly impressive memoir of a uniquely courageous and unusually intuitive young girl of the Holocaust nightmare and the years following. * Chaim Potok, author of The Chosen and The Promise *
About The Author
Alicia Appleman-Jurman
Alicia Appleman-Jurman (1930-2017) was a writer and lecturer. A Polish Jew, as a child she escaped the Nazis by being thrown through the window of a train taking her family to an extermination camp. Her parents and four brothers were all murdered. As a member of a resistance group, she helped to smuggle Jews out of Poland to Austria, and then on to what would become Israel. Her memoir, Alicia- Memoirs of a Survivor, is an account of her experiences of the Holocaust.
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