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Becoming Alice: A Memoir

Alice Rene

Start date: May 16, 2009

Finish date: June 16, 2009

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Why we're reading this: This book because it is the first time that the Holocaust is told through the eyes of a six year old Jewi…more
[close] This book because it is the first time that the Holocaust is told through the eyes of a six year old Jewish girl. Follow her through adolescnce to see the impact of fear on the growing child.

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Aug 10, 2009 Stuart rated it it was amazing

An Absorbing & Remarkable Tale of Survival

Alice Rene’s poignant memoir begins during a devastating chapter of history; the Holocaust. Ilise is a six-year-old young girl living in Vienna, Austria when the Nazi soldiers enter her life. What follows is a suspenseful, harrowing and highly worrisome journey as Ilise and her family flees their homeland.

The year is 1940 when family eventually arrives at the safety of America. Ilise faces challenges and (like all adolescents) desperately wants to fit in ...more

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