WVBF: Program - Alica Fruhwaldova

Alica Fruhwaldova
The Intergenerational Tragedy of the Holocaust: A Personal Story of Survival & Loss

Alica Fruhwaldova will tell the story of her parents, who, as a young Jewish couple in Slovakia, survived the Holocaust by living, during the WWII years, in a cave in the mountains outside of Banská Bystrica. Alica, born immediately after the war, will share her own story of growing up in her homeland without ever knowing any of her extended family, all of whom had been murdered by the Nazis in the years before her birth.

Alica Fruhwaldova was born in 1947 in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. She is married, has three grown children and seven grandchildren. The Loves I Have Lost is her first book. She holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in Education, from Comenius University is Bratislava, and has done postgraduate study in England. She taught English at elementary and high schools in Banská Bystrica, and spent most of her career working as the manager of the English Teaching Resource Center of The British Consulate in Banská Bystrica. She is a member of the European Club in Banská Bystrica.

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