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We Were the Lucky Ones (2024)

We Were the Lucky Ones poster
Genre
drama television series, historical drama, biographical television program
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 8 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 86 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The Kurc family is a Jewish family in Poland during World War II. The story follows the five Kurc siblings and their parents as they struggle to survive the war and the Holocaust.

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What happens

We Were The Lucky Ones is an American historical drama miniseries developed by Erica Lipez for Hulu that premiered on March 28, 2024 and ended on May 2, 2024. It is an adaptation of the 2017 book of the same name by Georgia Hunter, inspired by the story of her own family's struggle to survive World War II and the Holocaust. The drama centers on the Kurc family, Polish Jews, which includes five siblings portrayed by Joey King, Logan Lerman, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Amit Rahav and Hadas Yaron and their parents, played by Lior Ashkenazi and Robin Weigert. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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