In Paris, where he works as an engineer, Addy’s friends laugh off the threat: “All this talk of war is just a fuss.”īut it is only a matter of time before German forces invade and seize Radom. The close-knit Kurcs want to believe the danger is slight. It is spring 1939, and increasing anti-Jewish sentiment has the community on edge. In Hunter’s lightly fictionalized narrative, we meet her great-grandfather Sol and his wife Nechuma, their five adult children and a beloved baby granddaughter. The result is her impressive debut novel, “We Were the Lucky Ones” (Viking, February 2017). I assumed he was American through and through.”Īfter graduating from college and marrying, Hunter returned to her family history, embarking on a nine-year journey to research and record the Kurcs’ story of surviving the Holocaust. “Until that interview with my grandmother,” Hunter says, “I had no idea that I was one-quarter Jewish or that my grandfather was raised in Poland. Eddy, born Addy Kurc, was one of five children raised in Radom, Poland, in a Jewish family that was profoundly affected by the Holocaust. In the process, she learned that her recently deceased grandfather, Eddy Courts, had a history she never imagined. Hunter chose to interview her grandmother. When Georgia Hunter was 15, one of her teacher at the Moses Brown School, Ransom Griffin, assigned her class a family “I-Search” project.
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