• “I’m so ready to leave this place" said sweet little Alice. But little did she know this was a word she would soon regret saying.
    Alice was her name, born on November 11, 1936 into a community of Jews hiding from the Nazi government. Her mom was a reform and her dad was a conservative, these divisions made life hard for Alice. Alice grew up in the reform ways due to the fact that she and her dad were separated. Alice had three sisters Alika, Alonza, and Artika. She and her sisters had hard life’s living in fear of being caught. Her mom, sisters, and herself each worked twelve hour days in the cheapest paying jobs. Each day she came home to having a tired mom, mad sisters, and the people yelling at her (which she had all day but mainly at home). Her home really wasn't a home it was more of a prison cell. Alice saw herself as ugly, she had red hair pinned up in a bun and she wore the plain clothes her family could afford. Alice as she grew older started to question the ideas and plans of the Nazis.
    Alice when she was thirteen decided to escape the city of Berlin with all of her family. Her mom totally supported the idea of leaving but her sisters were in fear of being caught and persecuted. But one day when coming home from the job her mom said
    “Let’s go”.
    Quickly Alice packed her suitcase, said a prayer and she and her mom set off, eaving her sisters and the city behind. They walked to the bus station, but barely made it on the bus seeing as the soldiers were questioning them, but it turned out the soldiers were Jewish! The next day they got off the bus at the Polish border. But here the soldiers weren’t so kind. The soldiers did not want to let them cross the border into a country they did not control, but her mom made a heroic feat and asked for the soldiers to take her but to let Alice pass. The soldiers agreed and let only Alice through the border. As Alice walked away she saw the soldiers beating her for moving to slow. Alice ran back to the gate but the soldier told her to go back or he was going to shoot her. Alice solemnly walked away, knowing her mom would not want her to lose her life.
    Alice started a good life in Poland and lived there for many years until Nazi Soldiers stormed her home in the capital of Warsaw. Unmercifully the soldiers took Alice into captivity.
    This is the last report we have on the life of Alice Sterven born into a Jewish family but raised in a world that at the time hated Jews. No one knows what happened to Alice after the day they put her in captivity, but we have a few ideas.