Becoming Alice is a true story about a very young Jewish girl who survives the Holocaust and starts a new life in America
Six-year-old Ilse watches Nazi troops march down her street in Vienna, not knowing the tyranny of the holocaust will soon follow. With innocence and bewilderment she sees prejudice turn into a threat of death for her Jewish family.
Ilse survives a harrowing escape that ends in Portland, Oregon. Traumatized by these events and being different from other children as a refugee, she struggles to fit into the American landscape. She suffers even more distress because of the discord between her troubled family: an overbearing father, stressed mother, and rebellious brother. Ilse, now called Alice, refuses to become a victim of the holocaust and takes a path to a better place.
Professional Reviews
Midwest Book Review
Strongly recommended … a deftly written memoir that will hold the reader’s attention from beginning to end.
Judge, Writers Digest Magazine
This is a magnificent memoir and an impressive, courageous piece of work.
Judge, Writers Digest Magazine
It is amazing, well written, impelling, descriptive, captures the events. Well done!
It is amazing, well written, impelling, descriptive, captures the events. Well done!
It is amazing, well written, impelling, descriptive, captures the events. Well done!
SURGICALLY RE-WRITTEN and CONDENSED Feb-May 2013... A MONUMENTAL JOURNEY is an adventure mystery historical fiction novel that follows a young mans journey (with friends) to find Truth, happiness, purpose, and a long lost Norse tribe.
