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Apr 30, 2024 · Hunter's 2017 novel, now a forthcoming Hulu series, is based on her family’s experiences during the Holocaust Penguin Books; Andrea Carson When author Georgia Hunter thinks of her grandfather ...
Mar 28, 2024 · Created by Erica Lipez and directed by Thomas Kail, We Were the Lucky Ones is based on the bestselling 2017 novel by Georgia Hunter, who also serves as co-executive-producer on the project. Hunter ...
Georgia Hunter. My first book, We Were the Lucky Ones, was inspired by a family reunion in 2000 that opened my eyes to the astounding, untold wartime stories of my grandfather, his parents and his siblings. In 2008, I set off to research and record this piece of my ancestry and a decade later, We Were the Lucky Ones was born.
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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
About the Author. 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.
Feb 14, 2017 · We Were the Lucky Ones, Georgia Hunter We Were the Lucky Ones, based on the true story of a Polish Jewish family under Nazi occupation. The Kurc family shouldn't have survived the Holocaust. In the spring of 1939 three generations are living relatively normal lives in Poland, despite the hardships Jews face.
Driven by an unwavering will to survive and by the fear that they may never see one another again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere. An extraordinary, propulsive novel, We Were the Lucky Ones demonstrates how in the face of the twentieth century’s darkest moment, the human spirit can endure and even thrive.
