Dec 10-24, 2017
Lucky, indeed. What a shocking thing to say about a family surviving the Holocaust. But the Kurc family's survival is just that – hauntingly lucky. I admit I've been on a tear with WWII books of late, but the more I read, the more I want to learn. This book changes the narrative from what one would expect of the true story of Polish Jews and their fight for survival. The "lucky" part is because out of this rather large family – two parents, five children and their spouses, and a few grandchildren – every one of them survived. They consider themselves lucky even though they faced truly unbelievable hardships, from gulags to ghettos to imprisonment. The number of survivors versus those who perished in their home city of Radom is staggering. These are Hunter's ancestors and she did a beautiful job bringing their story to life.* * * * *
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