When her grandfather passed away, she started asking questions about him and learned from her grandmother that he was a Jew from Radam, Poland. Hunter was 15 years old when she learned that she came from a family of Holocaust survivors. “We Were the Lucky Ones,” by Georgia Hunter is a historical fiction novel based on true events. While the people and stories in these novels are often fictional, I still think we can learn a great deal about actual historical events through these types of books. One of my favorite ways of learning about places and times in history is through reading historical fiction novels. My love and interest in history has never waned. I may or may not have had a picture of Scott Bakula in my school locker! Both of these TV series installed a deep love of history in my young mind…as well as a love of all things time travel! To say I was obsessed with Quantum Leap would be putting it mildly.
Sam Beckett leaping around time and, again, fixing mistakes in history. This was another time travelling series with Dr. Fast forward a few years to 1989 when Quantum Leap premiered on TV. They hopped around history fixing things that had gone wrong and making them right. It was about an orphaned boy named, Jeffrey who accidentally teams up with a time traveler (known as a Voyager) named, Bogg. For those of you who weren’t lucky enough to be an 80’s kid, Voyagers was a time traveling series. That’s very precise! But that’s the year Voyagers came out on T.V. But I can track my beginning love of history and historical fiction back to 1982. No surprise, really, considering I graduated from college with a degree in history. Other than that, everything pretty mild.) Shannon’s Rating - R (The only reason this book would probably be given a R rating if it was a movie is because it contained 5 uses of the f-word. From the sunny shores of Brazil, to the frozen wasteland of Siberia – the journey these family members take in their quest for survival is one that should not be missed! The courage, resilience and faith of this entire family is truly inspiring. As the horrors threatening the Jewish population in Europe creep into their lives, the journey that this family embarks on to survive is absolutely extraordinary.
At the onset of World War II, the Kurc family was living a comfortable, happy life in Radam, Poland.
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