Alicia My Story, Book Summary Essay

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 cut down town of Buczacz with her four br opposites, 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 shallow in Russia and her father was gathered up by Ger serviceman authorities, the h binglesty of the whole situation quickly became very real. Her father was taken by shortly after the Russians had travel let on and the Germans began to occupy Buczacz.Once the Germans occupied, they locomote the Jewish population of Buczacz into mint ghettos. Alicia and the rest of her family had to share a mansion house with some(prenominal) other families which had also been driven come out of the night of there homes. The completely source of income in this situation was to sell things at the merchandiseplace, and even there, Jews were forbidden. Alicia went anyway and sold what she could for intellectual nourishment and m iy. One day her brother Bunio disappeared from the ghetto. Alicia and her family tack out later that he had been taken to a work camp, entirely that they could defecate off food packages to him.Shortly after this, Alicia was taken into custody by German officials and limit on a train to another(prenominal) work camp. Alicia managed to leakage from this train by jumping through a small window. She found her way to a river which led her back to the ghetto. By this time some(prenominal) mess in the ghetto had been feeling the effects of the impoverished conditions. Starvation, Typhoid, and other diseases, were commence to take its toll on the masses who lived in the ghetto. Then genius day, Alicia found out that her brother Bunio had been killed in the work camp. A boy had escaped so they seamed up all the boys and shot any fourth one.As time progressed, Alicia began assuming more than than responsibility for the nonchalant tasks of the family such as going out and trading for more food in places other than the marketplace. While this was going on, Zachary and a few other boys from the ghetto had been forming a descriptor of resistance. One day Alicia was informed that her brother had been hanged. after Zacharys death, Alicia was be shopliftered by a woman named Bella. She met many an(prenominal) good friends in the ghetto including a future friend as well as savior, Milek . Months later, Alicia and several other people were rounded up and sent to a prison house in Chortkov.Here the conditions were very poor. Every day more and more people were taken out and shot. On the inside of the cells it was a cesspit of germs and diseases. Every morning the jailkeepers would go around the cell and kick people to see if they were still alive. One of these times Alicia was taken for dead and put onto a wagon with other bodies. The driver of the wagon found her, nurse her back to better health and because brought her back to the ghetto. During this time, before, and after she returned to the ghetto attempts to give up the ghettos of Jews were called swear outs.To escape being caught by the German police who took part in the actions, they built large bunkers to hide from their captors. After several of these actions, the Buczacz ghetto had been emptied by more than half. At this point the time came to move to a new ghetto. Alicia had been in this new ghetto only a short time when another action occurred. This time Alicia was captured and brought to a mass grave with a multitude of other Jews. Just when Alicia was about to be shot Milek took a gun from one of the shooters and began shooting other officers. Alicia took advantage of this opportunity, as she had many others, and ran for her life.She ran fast and distant until she found herself coming into a town which was surrounded with tilled fields. She sight she could work in exchange for a small amount of food. She worked ruffianly in these fields and was able to let her mother in Buczacz lie with that she was safe. Alicia was reunited with her mother and they returned to this community where they lived for about a year. She also found out that her youngest brother Herzl had been taken absent and killed Alicia would work at these fields and frig around food, she would bring some back to her mother who, because of poor health, was resting in privacy most of the day..One day they met a nice old man that was sort of an outcast from the rest of the community. He let them stay with him and another Jewish family that he was taking care of in his shack. They stayed here during the pass while Alicia still searched for food, in the process, making many friends. News came one day that the Germans were beginning to fall back from the Russian fronts and Germanys enchant on the Jews in Poland was weakening. This news made Alicia and her mother move a way from the old man who helped them. Alicia and her mother had formed a very close friendship with the kindly man.When Alicia and her mother arrived in Buczacz they travel into a regular apartment and began to live a semi-normal life. It was not great after Alicia had moved back into Buczacz that the Germans took over the town again. In this raid on the Jews, Alicias mother was killed by the Germans. Alicia was taken to another prison where she would later be transported to another mass grave. While she was waiting, she devised a plan to escape the mass grave by running down a hillside and into a river. When they were lined up to be shot she ran to the river.She hid there all night and one time again she had escaped the Germans. As she made her way back, she became friends with a conclave Russian Jews who were fighting with the Russians. She even earned a medal from them because she had helped a number of them escape from a prison cell. Her bravery was not overlooked. returnin g(a) to Buczacz she found that there wasnt much left for her there, so she moved away with a person to a nearby town. She was in this town less than a few hours when her and her friend were taken into custody by the Russian police.What had happened was that her friend was suspected of selling things in the black market ( which she was ) and the police wanted to find out who was buying things from her. Over a span of 8 months they were kept but finally they were released. They received a lot of money from people that had been saved by their withholding of evidence. Alicia and her friend took this money and bought a train ticket to Lodz. They were stopped in Lvov because they went to get some tea while stopped at a station, but the train took off without them and they left all of their belongings on the train. adjacent they boarded a train to Krakow, and parted ways there.In Krakow, Alicia was staying at a rather large house with another family. She built a sort of orphanage by gathe ring up homeless children from the neighborhood. She lived with this family for a long time, and during this time she learned about a way that she could go to Eretz Island, Israel where she could be safe. She left her orphanage and went on a long journey where she met many people that were like her, in that she didnt like to see people suffer. Alicia made it to Israel but was taken by British border patrol officers to a jail on Cypress for coming into the country illegally. She was then released from Cyprus.