Becoming Alice

Six-year-old Ilse watches Nazi troops march down her street in Vienna without understanding the threat to her Jewish family. Becoming Alice chronicles their harrowing escape from persecution and struggle as refugees to fit into the American landscape. The added problems of growing up in a troubled family cloud her childhood and adolescence. Becoming Alice brilliantly showcases Ilse's (now Alice's) triumph over adversity, identity crisis, and the sometimes debilitating power of family ties.