Alice Howson was born as the second daughter of Béla and Isabella Holzer. Her father together with his brother was in charge of a large sheepskin and blanket factory in Sinnersdorf, which was founded by their grandfather. Her father was also managing director of the Spa in Bad Tatzmannnsdorf. Alice finished her school education in Vienna, then changed schools frequently however due to constant disturbance through the growing anti-semitic movement. In the night when the Nazis took power in March 1938, her father was arrested and imprisoned. Under psychological and physical force, her father had to sign over his entire property to the "German Reich" and declare himself and his family willing to leave the country. The tortures her father endured in prison, inflicted partly by people who had previously supported him, left him in a state he never quite recovered from. She succeeded in getting a visa for Palestine for her and her father and they both arrived in the summer of 1938 in Haifa. In December 1938 they were again successful in obtaining a visa for Palastina for the mother. Her sister Grete had already emigrated to Palestine before March 1938. After studying agriculture in Palestine, she began working as an au pair girl in Haifa, as a maid and later for the English army. Her father died in 1946. Alice Howson got employment at the Iraq Petroleum company, but then left as the company left Israel with the founding of the State of Israel. In 1949 she and her mother decided to return to Vienna for some time. She got to know her future husband in Austria and moved to him to England in 1951, where they built up a clothing factory. Alice Howson has two daughters, her husband died in 1999. She died in April 2003 in Manchester.