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Alicia Jurman is a study in the strength of the human spirit, creative problem-solving, and sustaining one's life by ingenuity and determination. The daughter of a factory owner, Alicia spent her early childhood in a stable Jewish family of six, until the German invasion and occupation of Poland and her small town of Buczacz. Forced into a ghetto, the life Alicia had known was systematically destroyed, with the murder of her father and ultimately, all three brothers. She and her mother were able to avoid the German "Judenrein actions" by hiding in underground bunkers and fleeing their town to hide in forests and ravines. On a number of occasions, Alicia was actually caught but managed to escape into an amazing journey around the villages and farms of Poland, disguising herself as a Pole or Ukrainian when necessary, in order to work in farmers' fields for a...
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