Alicia
Subtitle: my story
By: by Alicia Appleman-Jurman.
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: October 1, 1988
Place of publication: Toronto; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780553053173
Subjects: Appleman-Jurman, Alicia; Jews -- Persecutions -- Ukraine -- Buchach; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Ukraine -- Buchach -- Personal narratives; Holocaust survivors -- Biography; Refugees, Jewish -- Biography; Buchach (Ukraine) -- Ethnic relations
First sentence: First they killed my brother Moshe. . . .
Description: 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.
Notes: Map on lining papers.