My brother and I traveled through Buenos Aires a few years back and learned on a free walking tour of the city that the Jews were one of the largest groups of immigrants to Argentina. They opt to leave the country for good, and interestingly enough, end up going to the Americas, primarily Brazil. After the end of the war, the Kurc family reunites (which is in itself another amazing phenomenon considering they didn’t have the means to connect via technologies like cell phones, emails or text messages that we have today) and decided that they don’t feel safe in Poland. What I didn’t realize was how much Anti-Semitism had developed and persisted even after the war ended towards the Jews in Poland and throughout the rest Europe. I’m a visual learner and love maps so I thought that this was a neat visual that helped illustrate their journeys over the course of the war. It’s amazing to follow each of their paths and stories as they collectively migrate through France, Africa, Siberia, the Middle East, and the Americas. While reading, I found a map online that traces all the journey of all the family members throughout the war.

By some miracle everyone in the immediate family, the parents, their five children, and each of their spouses and children, all survive (hence the title We Were the Lucky Ones so you can’t claim that I spoiled it for you in that last sentence).

The author recounts the story of her grandfather’s family who were Jewish Poles during World War II. He’s repped by WME, Allison Binder and The Burstein Co.Motivation for reading: This book came highly recommended by one of my former roommates who is also one of my prominent book buddies. Aloni appeared in HBO’s Scenes From a Marriage and currently stars in seasons one and two of The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem on Netflix. Their daughter is not yet a year old when Selim is called to fight at the start of the war. His rep is Kim Donovan at The Artists Partnership.Īloni will recur as Selim, the adoring husband of Mila (Hadas Yaron) who runs a medical research lab in Radom. Woolf plays Prince Edward in the sixth season of The Crown and is set to star in the next season of Netflix’s The Witcher playing Rience.

Woolf, another series regular, will portray Adam, a skilled architect whose quiet intellect and keen attention to detail catch the eye of Halina ( Joey King), the youngest of the Kurc siblings. Her reps are Yitzug 1 Artists & Creators LTD, A3 Artists Agency and Cavalry Media. The Israeli actress is known Lipsticka and Snails in the Rain. Rosenblatt will play the series regular role Herta, an uninhibited, playful presence who is the perfect counterpart to Genek. RELATED: 2022 Hulu Pilots & Series Orders

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