The release date for the English version of 'We Were the Lucky Ones' by
Georgia Hunter is Feb 2017. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Three generations of the Kurc family are trying to lead regular lives in the spring of 1939, despite the looming threat of war. Around the family Seder table, the topics of conversation are not the growing difficulties facing Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland, but rather the birth of new infants and blossoming romances. However, the horrors engulfing Europe will soon become unavoidable, and the Kurcs will be cast into distant lands where they will each have to struggle hard to find their own way to survival.
While one sister faces banishment, another makes an effort to leave the continent, and still others fight to avoid certain death by either posing as gentiles in public or working long hours on empty stomachs in the ghetto's industries. The Kurcs are driven by an unbreakable determination to live and the dread that they would not see one other again, therefore their perseverance is based on hope, resourcefulness, and inner strength.
We Were the Lucky Ones is a remarkable and captivating book that vividly illustrates how the human spirit can persevere and even flourish even under the most dire circumstances of the twentieth century.