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We Were the Lucky Ones

por Georgia Hunter

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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:The New York Times bestseller with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide
Inspired 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 love against all odds. 

 
??Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.? ??Glamour
 
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 talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety.
 
As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death, either by working grueling hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. 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 endur
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A memoir of a family that survived the horrors of being a Polish Jew during WW II. An interesting recount that leaves out some key elements, but still manages to convey ow lucky so many of the family was able to survive and find one another. Kirkus: Hunter?s debut novel tracks the experiences of her family members during the Holocaust.Sol and Nechuma Kurc, wealthy, cultured Jews in Radom, Poland, are successful shop owners; they and their grown children live a comfortable lifestyle. But that lifestyle is no protection against the onslaught of the Holocaust, which eventually scatters the members of the Kurc family among several continents. Genek, the oldest son, is exiled with his wife to a Siberian gulag. Halina, youngest of all the children, works to protect her family alongside her resistance-fighter husband. Addy, middle child, a composer and engineer before the war breaks out, leaves Europe on one of the last passenger ships, ending up thousands of miles away. Then, too, there are Mila and Felicia, Jakob and Bella, each with their own share of strugglespain endured, horrors witnessed. Hunter conducted extensive research after learning that her grandfather (Addy in the book) survived the Holocaust. The research shows: her novel is thorough and precise in its details. It?s less precise in its language, however, which frequently relies on clich?. ?You?ll get only one shot at this,? Halina thinks, enacting a plan to save her husband. ?Don?t botch it.? Later, Genek, confronting a routine bit of paperwork, must decide whether or not to hide his Jewishness. ?That form is a deal breaker,? he tells himself. ?It?s life and death.? And: ?They are low, it seems, on good fortune. And something tells him they?ll need it.? Worse than these stale phrases, though, are the moments when Hunter?s writing is entirely inadequate for the subject matter at hand. Genek, describing the gulag, calls the nearest town ?a total shitscape.? This is a low point for Hunter?s writing; elsewhere in the novel, it?s stronger. Still, the characters remain flat and unknowable, while the novel itself is predictable. At this point, more than half a century?s worth of fiction and film has been inspired by the Holocaust¥a weighty and imposing tradition. Hunter, it seems, hasn?t been able to break free from her dependence on it.Too beholden to sentimentality and clich?, this novel fails to establish a uniquely realized perspective.
  bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
Haven't given a five star rating in awhile... this was riveting and breathtaking. I would often find myself holding my breath with the action, and going back to the book to see what was happening with the characters. Beautifully told. ( )
  Asauer72 | Jul 3, 2023 |
Very, very, moving story of a Jewish family's survival during the Holocaust.
  eurekajim | Jun 17, 2023 |
DNF
  Lindal1896 | Jun 11, 2023 |
This was a really good book, it just took me literally YEARS to finish it. ( I bought it at an airport bookstore in August 2019 on my way to something or other) And that reason is because it while it was a compelling story I found that I couldn't binge read it because it was so (justifiably) depressing. So I just kept picking it up for a few chapters and then putting it down again only to remember I was still reading it a little while later. And that's not a bad thing. I really did enjoy reading it while at the same time I'm glad I'm done reading it. ( )
  jovemako | Nov 3, 2022 |
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By the end of the Holocaust, 90 percent of Poland's three million Jews were annihilated; of the more than thirty thousand Jews who lived in Radom, fewer than three hundred survived.
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To my husband, Robert Farinholt, with all of my heart. And to my grandfather, with love and wonderment.
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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:The New York Times bestseller with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide
Inspired 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 love against all odds. 

 
??Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.? ??Glamour
 
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 talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety.
 
As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death, either by working grueling hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. 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 endur

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