Alicia My Story, book summary

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The main character in this story is a Jewish girl named Alicia. When the book

starts she is ten years old, she lives in the Polish town of Buczacz with her four brothers,

Moshe, Zachary, Bunio, and Herzl, and her mother and father . The holocaust experience

began subtly at first when the Russians began to occupy Buczacz. When her brother

Moshe was killed at a " Boys School" in Russia and her father was gathered up by

German authorities, the reality of the whole situation quickly became very real. Her father

was taken away shortly after the Russians had moved out and the Germans began to

occupy Buczacz. Once the Germans occupied, they moved the Jewish population of

Buczacz into mass ghettos. Alicia and the rest of her family had to share a house with

several other families which had also been driven out of there homes. The only source of

income in this situation was to sell things at the marketplace, and even there, Jews were

forbidden. Alicia went anyway and sold what she could for food and money.

One day her brother Bunio disappeared from the ghetto. Alicia and her family

found out later that he had been taken to a work camp, but that they could send food

packages to him. Shortly after this, Alicia was

when her and her friend were taken into custody by the Russian police. What had

down a hillside and into a river. When they were lined up to be shot she ran to the river.

and they left all of their belongings on the train. Next they boarded a train to Krakow,

News came one day that the Germans were beginning to fall back from the

Approximate Word count = 1330
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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