This New Hulu Series Is Based On A Real Family’s Survival Story

This New Hulu Series Is Based On A Real Family’s Survival Story

— HuluHulu’s We Were the Lucky Ones is based on Georgia Hunter’s 2017 book of the same name, and it's rooted in her real-life family history about surviving the Holocaust. As Hunter explains in the book, her grandfather didn’t talk much about his experience during World War II. However, she learned pieces of his past following his death in 1993 and decided to put the Kurcs’ story to paper.“I remember walking in and feeling like I was stepping ba…

‘We Were the Lucky Ones’: The Real Kurc Family’s Holocaust Survival Story

Author Georgia Hunter delved into her ancestors’ astounding history while writing her best-selling debut novel, the basis for a new limited series on Hulu.

True Story Behind We Were The Lucky Ones

The author Georgia Hunter grew up hearing that her granduncle kept a fake penis foreskin on hand in case he had to show proof that he wasn’t Jewish in Warsaw during the Holocaust. As the story was told to Hunter, her relative, an architect named Adam, was so desperate not to be discovered as Jewish that he stuck a bandage on his member with an egg white and water mixture. When a landlord’s wife confronted him, accusing him of hiding his real ide…

‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ Review: A Sensitive, Moving Portrayal of One Family’s Holocaust Journey

“We Were the Lucky Ones” has its warning built into the title. The Hulu series based on the book by Georgia Hunter and adapted by Erica Lipez is about how one family survived and separated during the Holocaust, all of it underscored by that title — this is what they went through, the horror they witnessed and endured, the sadness that befell them, and they were lucky. The series kicks off in Radom, Poland before the War, with the Kurc family: Si…

We Were The Lucky Ones Author Talks Hulu Adaptation, Staying True To Family Story & Involvement

Georgia Hunter's powerful and decade-spanning novel of survival makes its way to the screen with We Were the Lucky Ones. Based on the true story of Hunter's own family, the Hulu miniseries chronicles the lives of the Kurcs, a Polish Jewish family whose lives are upended when Germany invades the country in 1939, kicking off World War II. The family will find themselves scattered across the globe and struggling to help fellow Jews evade Nazi captu…