Alicia Appleman-Jurman

Alicia Appleman-Jurman (May 9, 1930 – April 8, 2017), also known as Alicia Ada Appleman, was a Polish–American memoirist. She was born in Rosulna, Poland (present-day Rosilna, Ukraine). Alicia is best known for her autobiography, Alicia: My Story, in which she wrote and spoke about her harrowing experiences during the Holocaust.

She lived in Búchach from the age of five with her four brothers—Moshe, Bunio, Herzl, and Zachary—and her parents, Sigmund and Frieda Jurman. Tragically, all her family members perished during the Holocaust. Alicia's own escape involved jumping from a moving train that was headed to an extermination camp.

After the war, she joined the Berihah movement, helping Jewish people escape from Poland to Austria and then to the British Mandate of Palestine. In 1947, she traveled on the ship Theodor Herzl to Cyprus and then to the Mandate. The following year, in 1948, she met an American volunteer, Gabriel Appleman, whom she married before moving to the United States.

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