We Were the Lucky Ones - Georgia Hunter torrent

Category: Adults, Historical Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Germany Holocaust Poland World War II
Written by Georgia Hunter
Read by Kathleen Gati
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: February 14, 2017
Duration: 15:36:46
Debut author Hunter’s source for this novel is the remarkable history of her own family It is a chronicle which follows the journeys of a Polish Jewish family during the Holocaust.
It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety.
As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death, either by working grueling hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. Driven by an unwavering will to survive and by the fear that they may never see one another again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere.
An extraordinary, propulsive novel, We Were the Lucky Ones demonstrates how in the face of the twentieth century’s darkest moment, the human spirit can endure and even thrive.
Narrator Kathleen Gati doesn’t over dramatize this emotional Holocaust story, but neither does she alter her tone to create identifiable characters. Narrator Robert Fass offers a much-needed break in the story’s tension as he delivers the historical aspects of the author’s account of her family’s experiences prior to and during WWII. Gati’s use of a slight accent lends credibility to the hardships and heartaches the Kurcs faced–from terrifying encounters with Nazis to the betrayals of friends that led to hiding and, finally, escape from certain death. Intense listening. S.J.H. � AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
There is also an upload in Dutch…..
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: February 14, 2017
Duration: 15:36:46

Debut author Hunter’s source for this novel is the remarkable history of her own family It is a chronicle which follows the journeys of a Polish Jewish family during the Holocaust.

It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety.

As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death, either by working grueling hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. Driven by an unwavering will to survive and by the fear that they may never see one another again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere.

An extraordinary, propulsive novel, We Were the Lucky Ones demonstrates how in the face of the twentieth century’s darkest moment, the human spirit can endure and even thrive.

Narrator Kathleen Gati doesn’t over dramatize this emotional Holocaust story, but neither does she alter her tone to create identifiable characters. Narrator Robert Fass offers a much-needed break in the story’s tension as he delivers the historical aspects of the author’s account of her family’s experiences prior to and during WWII. Gati’s use of a slight accent lends credibility to the hardships and heartaches the Kurcs faced–from terrifying encounters with Nazis to the betrayals of friends that led to hiding and, finally, escape from certain death. Intense listening. S.J.H. � AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

There is also an upload in Dutch…..