We Were the Lucky Ones

By Georgia Hunter

This is the remarkable story, based on true events, of a Polish family that survived the holocaust.  There were two parents and five siblings.  Despite the fact that almost all Polish Jews were killed during World War II, here is one family that survived.  The author is a great granddaughter, living in America, who discovers this story in her late teens.  Her grandfather simply did not talk much about what he experienced. 

She began researching the story and tells the story in a riveting novel.  All of the big events occurred, but she imagines conversations and many details.  One sibling escapes to France and then Brazil.  One sibling and his wife end up in a concentration camp in Siberia.  Several survive the war in Poland.  It is a moving account of the horrors of the Holocaust and one family’s survival.  I highly recommend it.