Red’s Book Reviews: We Were the Lucky Ones by Gloria Hunter

I have to be honest I spent so much of this book thinking about the line in the Beatles song “A Day In the Life,” that states “A crowd of people turned away, but I just had to look, having read the book.” This compelling account of a Jewish family in Poland during World War II just creates that feeling in reverse. We’ve all seen the “movie” of this story. The plight of Jewish people under the Nazis and even those under Stalin in Russia is well-documented, so when you read a story like this that provides real characters and narratives it’s easy to be scared to turn the page because the fact is that the stories didn’t end happy for most Jews in this time and place. This is a remarkably well-researched and well-told story, and I’d recommend this to anyone to read.

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