Alicia: My Story
by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
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Book Reviews of Alicia: My Story
Book Review: A wonderful book!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have always been interested in the Halocaust, and have read tons of books on it, and this is one of the best. It is a great, true story that really gives you a close up look at how life was to be a Jew during the Holocaust in Poland. Alicia is about a 13-year-old girl whose family is eventually all killed. Her emotions come out through her reading, and she describes tis so well. It gives lots of detail, and is truly a heart-warming story about Alicia. It is a very inspirational book, written by Alicia herself. I would definetely recommend this book to almost everyone. Sad, yes, but it does have some happy parts. A must-read!!!Book Review: A wonderful book!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great, true story that really gives you a close up look at how life was to be a Jew during the Holocaust in Poland. Alicia is about a 13-year-old girl whose family is eventually all killed (don't worry, I'm not giving anything away. That is on the very first page). It gives lots of detail, and is truly a heart-warming story about Alicia. It is a very inspirational book, written by Alicia herself. I would definetely recommend this book to almost everyone. Sad, yes, but it does have some happy parts.Book Review: A Review of Alicia
Summary: 4 Stars
Two truths seem to surface when studying the Holocaust. The first truth is overt. It deals with the depravity of humanity, the ability of people to create evil and the willingness of human beings to inflict that wicked creation onto others. The second truth students need to search for in order to find. It is a response to the first truth. It is the human potential for dignity that people can perform in the face of evil. In the case of the Holocaust, the enormity of the event makes these truths poignantly apparent.The first truth instills anger, depression and cynacism in students, emotions that do not always lead to constructive thoughts or actions.
On the other hand, the second truth inspires. Like the first truth, it forces students to remember the Holocaust and to look at the wanton human cruelty, racism, destruction, murder, and genocide surrounding the event.
The second truth also teaches a positive attitude worth emulating. Anne Frank, in her classic diary, innocently and vividly articulates this truth when she writes "despite everything, I still believe the world is good."
Alicia Appleman Jurman, in her autobiography Alicia: My Story writes of her experience as a teenage Jewish girl fleeing the Nazis by hiding out in the back forests and wheat fields of rural Poland. In her account as a survivor of the Holocaust and as a witness to the destruction of European Jewry, Appleman-Jurman demonstrates a physical defiance and an active heroism which inspires the reader long after he or she has read the last page.
In addition, Appleman-Jurman manages to show faith in human goodness(even after she witnesses the brutal murder of her mother) when she describes the actions of individuals who elevate themselves above the pervasive depravity of their environment and time.
A generation after Hitler and the Nazi State attempted to commit genocide and annihilate the Jewish people, much attention has been focused on the Holocuast. Historians are doing research. Artists are creating depictions. Authors are writing literature. Grand museums and monuments have been built. Rituals and liturgy are being written and observed.
In analyzing these acts of remembrance, the message being portrayed about the Holocuast is not always clear.
Appleman Jurman's memoir does not provide conclusive answers to this most difficult question. In her account of the horrors, however, the example of her active heroism and faith in humanity helps students focus their attention in a constructive and positive direction, a direction that enables students to search for honest answers while maintaining a semblance of a healthy outlook on the world in which we live.
For that lesseon, this teacher and student of the Holocaust is eternally grateful.
Elliot Fein teaches Jewish religious studies at the Tarbut V'Torah School in irvine, California.
Book Review: Inspiring
Summary: 5 Stars
Alicia ia an inspiring book for young people that have lost many close ones in their life. Alicia is a very amazing person it is hard to believe how she stays alive and well throughout the book. Alicia shows how no matter how hard you struggle you can always help others. The author of this book, Alicia Appleman-Jurman makes you feel like you are in the book with her going through all the struggles. Throughout this book, Alicia goes through many encounters and meets many new people some nice and some not. She adjusts to her living conditions very well and helps the people around her. She copes with the lose of her four brothers and her mother and father and finds many other lost family members. She even meets other people that were generous and she consider them her "new family." If you helped alicia along her struggle with the holocaust you can guarantee that she will pay you back someday, somehow. It is very heart-breaking to think how Alicia spent her teenage years, hdidng sometimes in the worst of places. Also throughout the book Alcia looses mant friends, her dearest friend of all, she bouries. After reading this book i can say that this on of the best holocaust books i have ever read, although i have not read many, I can guarantee you that no matter what age, sex you will love this book if you read it. The way she touches peoples lives is truly inspiring. I know that if i wouldve lived through those times, I would not have stuck it out like Alicia, but she continues to find more and more ways to help people and save herself. This book will really touch you heart if you read it.Book Review: Beautifully Told
Summary: 5 Stars
Alicia is truly an amazing person and it is hard to believe that this story is true. As a child and adult she suffers so much but always keeps a courage even when her and her family are seperated. You see how she survives in ghettos and in hiding while always helping others as a child and then later how she helps others survive while she is close to adulthood. This is a story I will never forget.