About this title: At the age of nine, Alicia saw her family, her community and all she had known, wiped out as the Germans invaded her country. During her long trek across Europe in search of safety, although she was only a child, she came to the aid of fellow Jews and Russian partisans.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780553282184ISBN:0553282182
Description: Acceptable. Back/ Front cover is folded. Well used. Still readable but not for the collector. All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. 0553175513 paperback same content exactly-Standard Used Condition, some cover wear, different cover, No writing or Highlighting, some minor spine creases, minor age tan-well bound and solid, sold for content. read more
Description: Very Good. 4 1/2 x 7. In very good, clean, unmarked condition. Slight edge/shelfwear. Spine uncreased. The author's experiences between the ages of 10 and 15 as a Polish Jew in Nazi-dominated, war-torn Poland. read more
Description: Very Good. B000UTI8QO **mass market paperback**--Exactly as pictured--EXACT ISBN MATCH--cover has shelf wear at tips of corners and minor cover crease or curl, minor Spine Creasing, No personalizations, No marks in the text at all. Tight and well bound. read more
Binding: Hard Back
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1988
Description: As New in Near Fine jacket. Book Club Edition. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" 356 Pages. Alicia Jurman was thirteen years old when she began saving the lives of people she did not know. In 1943, when Alicia, her mother and her only surviving brother were separated by the Nazis, they vowed to meet again in their Polish hometown. While Alicia fled from the Nazis tehrough the forests and wheat fields of Poland toward her home, she rescued other Jews from the grips of the Gestapo, leading them to safe hideouts ... read more
"Unlike most Jewish memoirs about WWII, Alicia was never sent to a concentration camp and instead managed to survive the war by hiding herself and her mother in Poland. Initially I wasn't too interested in reading this book, having just reread The Book Thief, but I found that Alicia's experience was so amazing that I couldn't put the book down. Towards the end, I started to get bored with her need to get to Israel, but it provided some interesting context and perspective for the situation in Israel today."
"This is a beautiful but haunting memoir. It is heart-breaking and graphic. It is hard to imagine a young girl going through such things--she saw the very worst of humanity, and yet she remained hopeful that there were still good people. She was very intelligent, strong, and brave. The last paragraph sums it up well: "Through the story of Alicia I wish to reach out, not only to survivors like myself, but to all people. I hope that it will strengthen today's youth by imparting a better understanding of the true history of my whole lost generation. I believe that the book will teach young people what enormous reserves of strength they possess within themselves. I pray that all readers, Jew and non-Jew alike, may unite in the resolve that evil forces will never again be permitted to set one people against another."
This is the second book in a row I read about the Holocaust. The views were very different and eye-opening to me. I have been talking about them so much that it has made Mike want to read them too. Some days I have just sat and cried. They definitely make me thankful for the comforts and peace I take for granted. As a mother, this book touched me and made me not only treasure my little ones, but vow to teach them and protect them the best I can. It was powerful."
"Few people know the truth about the Holocaust, but Alicia experienced it. As Polish Jews, her family suffered greatly. She watched as her family was slowly picked off by the soldiers and then by starvation. She managed to escape with her life time and time again by using a combination of great fortune and her knowledge. She and her mother survived by her continued ability to work in fields for small meals and shelter. Unfortunately her ailing mother finally fell at the hands of a Nazi officer and Alicia had to continue on alone. She managed to keep herself alive and even take care of some Jewish children, even younger than her, that she discovered doing the very same thing she was doing. She managed to survive the war and became a resistance fighter and aid to those trying to escape the still very biased Poland.
This is one of the most rich and compelling Holocaust sagas I have ever read. At times it can be a little too detailed and feel drawn out, but it conveys the reality of her situation. A must read for any Holocaust student."
"I read this in third grade, and it's easily the book that had the greatest effect on me as a child. Much more than Anne Frank, much more than any other book about the Holocaust. It was brutal, horrific, and challenging, and it opened my eyes to a whole other side of the world."
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