Alice

About the Book

We tend to equate the word hero with sports superstars and battlefield bravery. There are civilian heroes, too, who deserve the same recognition. Alice is one of them. Caught up in a maelstrom not of her making, with her hopes dashed and her family in danger, she abandons her homeland to begin a hazardous odyssey that spans four countries and 3,000 miles of ocean. This story, using Alice’s personal journal as a nucleus, is a tale of love and desire - a love for life, a love for family, and an overwhelming desire to survive. - - - - -

About the Author

Having begun his writing career at an age when most men are satisfied to kick back and relax, Sidney B. Kurtz has written three books with roots in World War II. The first tells of a family’s adventures after leaving Latvia for the U.S. in 1912. The second and third books concern families that managed to escape from German-occupied Europe before and during the war. Mr. Kurtz grew up in the congested and mostly immigrant-inhabited neighborhood of North Philadelphia, where the streets were the playgrounds, and where horse-drawn wagons shared space with sidewalk vendors hawking freshly made horse radish.