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Apr 30, 2024 · The family historian. Georgia Hunter. Courtesy of Hulu/Disney. We Were the Lucky Ones follows the Kurc family, whose five adult children — Genek, Mila, Addy, Jakob and Halina — end up scattered...
Mar 28, 2024 · based on a true story. We Were the Lucky Ones: The Real Kurc Family’s Holocaust Survival Story. Author Georgia Hunter delved into her ancestors’ astounding history while writing her...
Georgia Hunter (Author of We Were the Lucky Ones) Goodreads Author. Born. in Plainville, The United States. Website. https://georgiahunterauthor.com. Twitter. georgia_hunter. Genre. Historical Fiction, Fiction. Member Since. September 2007. URL. https://www.goodreads.com/georgiahunter. edit data.
When Georgia Hunter was fifteen years old, she learned that she came from a family of Holocaust survivors. We Were the Lucky Ones was born of her quest to uncover her family’s staggering history. Hunter’s website, georgiahunterauthor.com, offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the extensive research this project has entailed.
At the age of 15, Georgia Hunter interviewed her maternal grandmother for a school assignment on her family’s history. She discovered that her grandfather’s family (his parents, his four siblings, their spouses and children), Jews originally from Poland, were Holocaust survivors. Ninety percent of Poland’s Jews were
Feb 14, 2017 · 154,875 ratings12,349 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2017), Nominee for Best Debut Goodreads Author (2017) It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer.
The New York Times bestseller with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide | Now a Hulu limited series starring Joey King and Logan LermanInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and ...
