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Alicia: My Story by: Alicia Appleman-Jurman List Price: £4.02 City Travel Guides Price: £3.79 You Save: £0.23 ( 6%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 940.53150392 EAN: 9780553282184 ISBN: 0553282182 Label: Bantam Books Manufacturer: Bantam Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: 1990-01 Publisher: Bantam Books Studio: Bantam Books Sales Rank: 8244 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Gripping and so inspiring!I received this book only a day or so after ordering it here on Amazon, and began it that very evening..... I have found it hard to put down, and thoroughly recommend it, I shall finish it by tomorrow, and then my daughter is going to read it. She is learning all about Hitler and world war2 for G.C.S.E's, but not enough is taught regarding the Jews and what happened. This book should be read by all children, to help them realise how lucky they are not to have to experience such horror, and to feel and empathise for what really happened, and to stop it ever happening again. This is an amazing, inspirational and terribly moving insight into a young Jewish girls experience of living through World war 2 in Poland. I cried, and also am filled ... Read More: Rating: - An irrepressible spirit of survivalRaised from the age of five in Buczacz, which was roughly a third Jewish at that time, Alicia was sheltered relatively well from the anti-Semitism that plagued her town, as well as the rest of Europe. She had many friends, both Jewish and Christian. After the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939, whereby the two genocidal dictators divided Poland between them, Buczacz fell into the Soviet zone. The Soviets began a forced Sovietization drive, and deported thousands of people to slave labour, or their deaths, who they saw as 'enemies of the Soviet Union'.Alicia recalls being offended and hurt, on behalf of her Christian friends, for whose religion she had deep respect, when the Madonna and Child were removed from their customary spot in the classroom ... Read More: Rating: - Heartrending readIf you are interested in Holocaust history then this book is a must. Your heart goes out to Alicia right from the start. It sends a clear picture of what the Nazis were like and what horrors they were capable of, the book is very well written and it is very difficult to put down because all you want is for the family to survive. Rating: - Unbelievable - but trueI haven't even finished reading this book, but felt I must let other people know how fantastic it is. An amazing true story of courage and hope and each page is more gripping than the last. This book has given me more of an insight into what happened to the Polish Jews than anything else I have seen or read. If you're interested in this period of history then buy this book now. Rating: - Remarkable story from a remarkable womanI am a huge reader of holocaust literature. There's something really inspiring in the way that people such as Alica survive the very worst of deprevations, and somehow manage to emerge out the other side not just as survivors but as trully remarkable human beings. Alicia's story really is heart rending. How she didn't herself go under when she saw one member of her family after another lose their life we can only wonder at. Although this work is biographical, it really has the feel of a novel to it, and so is a very fluent read. The only criticism I would make was that the end of the book was a little abrupt. I really felt I could have done with one final chapter on how Alica rebuilt her life in Israel and America. |
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