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2017.
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""Reading Georgia Hunter's We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment."--Paula McLain, New York Timesbestselling author of The Paris Wife. An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who scatter at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive, and to reunite. It is the spring of 1939, and three generations...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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Ira Schuman is determined to move his family out of their Polish shtetl to the hope and opportunities he’s heard about in America. But along the way he faces the death of three of his four sons, a wife who does not have the same aspirations as his, and the birth of a daughter, Ava, conceived to make up for the loss of his boys. Ava grows up to be smart, beautiful, and very independent. Besides having a feisty relationship with her overly-protective...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"Poland 1944. Mjetek finds himself in Auschwitz after taking part in Zionist Resistance activity, where he tries to fight against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. In Auschwitz, Mjetek meets his brother. They quickly realize that their entire family were massacred and that their days are numbered. Mjetek decides he will not surrender. Despite the fact that he had never worked with metal before, in order to be considered as necessary, he claims to be...