![]() V-day finds some of the Kurcs together, but the celebration is empty they are still sundered, mourning, and directionless. They stage daring escapes from ghettos, hide in plain sight in Polish cities, and, always, yearn for the days when their family was whole. They work for the underground, fight battles in Italy, and are imprisoned in gulags. During the course of the war, the Kurcs are flung to distant points on the globe, from Brazil to Siberia. Their sons Genek and Jakob join the Polish army a third son, Addy, is stuck in France, soon to be conscripted. Aging parents Sol and Nechuma stay in their home of Radom, along with their adult daughters Halina and Mila. ![]() ![]() The 1939 German invasion of Poland sunders the Kurc family. ![]() Debut author Hunter excavates the remarkable history of her own family in this chronicle, which follows the journeys of a Polish Jewish family during the Holocaust. ![]()
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