![]() When their children were school-age, Sol and Nechuma sent them to elite private academies.Sol and Nechuma hoped to give their children a chance to side-step the undertones of anti-Semitism that had defined Jewish life in Radom since before any of them could remember.” ![]() ![]() “.Rather than live in the Old Quarter as the majority of Radom’s less affluent Jews do, they own a stately apartment in the center of town.Their fabric shop is thriving Nechuma takes great care on her buying trips to collect the highest quality textiles, and their clients, both Polish and Jewish, come from as far as Kraków to purchase their ladieswear and silk. She vividly describes her great-grandmother, Nechuma, and her family’s way of life, as they gathered around the Passover seder table: After extensive interviews and research, Hunter created a novelization of their stories. Some fled, some hid, some fought, but all were reunited in the Americas after seven years of separation and uncertainty. In the expansive Holocaust narrative genre, these qualities are ever-present – but rarely in such stories does every protagonist survive, as they do in Georgia Hunter’s fictionalized family history, We Were the Lucky Ones (Viking 2017).Īs a teenager, Hunter learned that her mother’s family had survived the German occupation of Poland. Desperate times inspire bravery, creativity, resilience, and endurance. ![]()
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