Editions

Alicia

  • Imprint: Bantam

  • ISBN: 9780857502612

  • Length: 448  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 28mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 304g

  • RRP: £9.99

Alicia

  • Memoirs of A Survivor

Here is a thrilling, uplifting story of true-life heroism -- Alicia's story is one that the young must hear and their elders must remember.

  • Imprint: Bantam

  • ISBN: 9780857502612

  • Length: 448  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 28mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 304g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • An impressive memoir of a courageous, forthright individual who refused to accept the Holocaust as 'God's Will''

    Booklist

  • Profoundly observed . . . amid all this ferocious bravery, small, sweet details emerge with a rending power

    New York Times Book Review

  • 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.

Alicia Appleman-Jurman

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