Alicia Appleman-Jurman was only 11 years old when the Nazis invaded occupied Poland. Alicia survived World War II the Jewish Holocaust, the only member of her 7-person family (father, mother, 4 brothers) to do so. Appleman-Jurman began by speaking in schools and synagogues and with youth groups, but eventually the children who heard her story asked her to write it down so that their parents could also hear her story. Alicia: My Story, which she wrote over a 3-year period starting in , is her answer to those children's requests. The book is now a staple in Holocaust education around the country. · One such individual was Alicia Appleman-Jurman (). Her story is one of loss, terror, determination, and survival. Out of her family of seven, Alicia was the only one to survive the Holocaust. Born in Buchach, Ukraine, she was the daughter of a Jewish businessman. When Adolf Hitler invaded the Ukraine in , her life changed dramatically.
Alicia Appleman-Jurman as a young girl bltadwin.ru Alicia Appleman-Jurman was subject to many horrors in her young life, despite her age of only 11, and she leanred to fight through them. Alicia Appleman-Jurman was born on May 9th in Rasuna, Poland. She had four brothers, a mother and a father. by Alicia Appleman-Jurman. Alicia Jurman is five-years-old when her story begins. It is and she is living in the East Polish town of Buczacz. Although brought up in an atmosphere of anti-Semitism, nothing could prepare this young girl for the Russian invasion of Poland and the full horror of the Nazi Occupation. Greenberg questioned Alicia about her experiences while in Eretz Israel (Palestine) in the years following the end of the book, life in the United States as she her husband built their lives together raised a family, and the specifics of just how Mrs. Appleman-Jurman wrote her book.
After losing her entire family to the Nazis at age 13, Alicia Appleman-Jurman went on to save the lives of thousands of Jews, offering themn her own courage and hop in a time of upheavbal and tragedy. With this book Alicia Appleman-Jurman joins the ranks of such powerful Holocaust witnesses as Eli Wiesel, Prima Levi, Anne Frank, and Hannah Senesh. In addition to “Alicia’s” release by Bantam Books, it has been chosen a featured alternate by the Literary Guild and has been licensed for translation and publication in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Holland, France, Italy, and Switzerland. I am Alicia Appleman, also known as Alicia Appleman-Jurman. I am the author of “Alicia, My Story”, “Six Cherry Blossoms and Other Stories” and “Alicia: My story Continues, a Journey of Historical Photographs”. I am representing over one million Jewish people who were killed outside of concentration camps.
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