Helpful Score: 3
What sets We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter apart from other books I have read about the Holocaust is its simultaneously narrow and expansive scope. Amazingly, this is the story of one family. Yet, it reaches across Poland, Siberia, France, Northern Africa, Italy, South America, and even the United States of America. This is a remarkable story of survival in war. It paints not only a horrific image of the war but also a beautiful picture of family, love, and hope.
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Reviewed for the Penguin First to Read program.
Read my complete review at http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2017/02/we-were-lucky-ones.html.
Reviewed for the Penguin First to Read program.
Helpful Score: 3
This book was absolutely amazing! The facts and the research that was done, the descriptions, each character, the places.....Everything about it was fabulous. I can't remember the last time a book moved me to tears so many times in embarrassing places. SPOILER ALERT: In the authors blurb at the end of the book we find out each story was true and she researched and interviewed all her relatives, made it even more poignant. I highly recommend anyone having any interest in the Holocaust to read this book!
long (400 pages) but good book. It seems that most WWII HF I read focuses on England, France or Germany. The first book I recall about Poland in that era was The Lilac Girls about Polish women in the concentration camps who had medical experiments performed on them. This book is also about Poland - it was a true story of the author's family and portrays what it was like in Poland during the war. All of the immediate family manages to survive the war and all have distinct stories. From emigrating to Brazil to Siberian gulag camps to hiding out in Warsaw basements and attempting to pass as Aryan to the Underground and fake IDs. Since some of my family originated in Poland, the country and its history interests me. This book was good, well written and well researched. It read more like a story than a history text. My only criticism is that it was a little long.
Helpful Score: 1
This true account of the author's family during WW2 starts off in Poland before and after the Nazi occupation. They had a large very close family and their amazing story takes you literally all over the world.
I've read so many WW2 books and was reluctant to read another one however, I'm so glad I did. It was an incredible, unbelievable yet heartwarming story.
I've read so many WW2 books and was reluctant to read another one however, I'm so glad I did. It was an incredible, unbelievable yet heartwarming story.
Helpful Score: 1
Amazing account of a family who survived the Holocaust. It's hard to imagine what that must have been like, and the strength & determination needed to make it through WWII, but the Kurc family did just that. Some of them were on their own as they navigated their way to safety.
