Alice Amber

. When Professor Newman took his daughter to study in Paris, he went on to Poland to visit his brothers and was most impressed with his niece Alice who was fluent in many languages as well as being an artist, besides being attractive. When his brother-in-law Julius heard how pretty Alice was, he started corresponding with her in English. They finally met in Paris and became engaged in the early 1930’s. Julius Bairnshtain’s (Bernstein) last name was changed in the U.S. to Amber. Julius sent for Alice and as soon as she got off the boat in New York, they were married by her uncle Rabbi Nieman (Newman). Rabbi Nieman had written our family chronology. (Alice’s father and all her uncles were first cousins to Grandfather Yosif.) Alice’s father was a rabbi as well as an accountant in a bank. During WWII, Alice’s parents and family members along with all the Jews in their village were herded into a fenced-in pen guarded by Nazis with machine guns. They were burned alive like dead, sick cattle. Alice’s only child, daughter Linda, married an Australian doctor, Dr. Michael Phillips, whom she met in Israel. They now live in Chicago with their two children, Astrid and Jonas. Alice Amber’s younger sister, Zipora Newman Shapiro, lives in Israel along with her two daughters.