Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Mark I. Greenberg, Elizabeth Tucker
Publication Date
3-26-2014
Date
2010-01-25
Abstract
Alicia Appleman-Jurman is the author of Alicia: My Story, which recounts her encounters as a Jewish child both during the Holocaust and immediately after World War II. In 1947, Appleman-Jurman journeyed from Europe to the Jewish homeland of Eretz Israel aboard the Theodor Herzl, a voyage that ended with imprisonment on the island of Cyprus. After eight months, she was finally allowed to go to Palestine, where she lived from 1947 to 1952, during which she attended the Mikveh Israel Agricultural School, served two years in the Israeli Navy, and met and married American Gabriel Appleman. The newlyweds moved to New York in 1952. Concurrently with pursuing various occupations and attending many different institutions of higher learning to study various subjects, Appleman-Jurman also began bearing witness to groups, mostly comprised of schoolchildren. Gabriel, Alicia, and their three children lived in several places around the world for Gabriel's work, which is how they came to be in Israel during the Arab-Israeli War in 1973. The Appleman familiy returned to to California in 1975 and remained there. Alicia tried very hard not to allow the lives of her three children to be negatively affected by her own childhood wartime experiences. In fulfillment of the promise she had made to so many schoolchildren to eventually write down her story into book form, she wrote non-stop over a period of three years during the early 1980s while living in Holland. The impact of her story on readers is extremely important to Alicia Appleman-Jurman.
Keywords
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Holocaust survivors--Interviews, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, Holocaust survivors--California--Interviews, Israel-Arab War, 1973--Biography, Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland, Jewish refugees--Cypress, Jewish refugees--Israel, Jewish women--Study and teaching (Continuing education)--United States, History--Cyprus--British rule, 1878-1960
Extent
02:01:47; 47 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Europe; Cyprus; Palestine; Israel; Holland
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
F60-00054
Recommended Citation
Appleman-Jurman, Alicia, "Alicia Appleman-Jurman Oral History Interview" (2014). Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project. 41.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/holocaust_OH/41
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