There is an 8-part miniseries on Hulu, “We Were The Lucky Ones”, which Mrs. Arbel drew my attention to. It tells the stranger-than-fiction story of how the Kurtz [German spelling] or Kurc [Polish spelling] family from the town on Radom, Poland survived the Shoah against all odds — some hidden or “hiding in plain sight” in Poland, others fleeing eastward and ending up with the “General Anders Army”, yet another somehow making it out of occupied France to, ultimately, Brazil.
The latter’s granddaughter, Georgia Hunter, spent nearly a decade researching her family story, and wrote down a lightly fictionalized version of it as a novel. It stayed on the NYT bestseller list for months and has been translated into many languages. Below is an interview with the author:
BONUS ITEM: IN this episode of “Who Do You Think You Are””, actress Lisa Kudrow (best known as “Phoebe Buffay” from the long-running sitcom “Friends”) researching her own ancestors’ fate in the Shoah… and discovering a long-lost relative
Never forget.
And never again means never.
Spin, strangeness, and charm 