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‘We Were The Lucky Ones’ Author Georgia Hunter Tells an Incredible New Holocaust Tale

JL;DR SUMMARY Georgia Hunter's novel, originally a personal exploration of her Holocaust-surviving grandfather's past, became the acclaimed novel and TV show "We Were the Lucky Ones." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustFriendshipJewish IdentityWorld War IiMotherhoodHistorical FictionWe Were The Lucky OnesItalyGeorgia HunterTelevision Adaptation

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Romania
"Production took her on a journey through Romania and brought the most glamorous young stars to the project: Joey King and Logan Lerman, along with Israels biggest screen stars, from Michael Aloni to Hadas Yaron to Lior Ashkenazi and Amit Rahav."
Israel
"Production took her on a journey through Romania and brought the most glamorous young stars to the project: Joey King and Logan Lerman, along with Israels biggest screen stars, from Michael Aloni to Hadas Yaron to Lior Ashkenazi and Amit Rahav."
Italy
"The stories that would otherwise maybe disappear. And for me, Italy was that. I knew very little about Italys story, the history of the Holocaust there."
Greece
"We tooled around the Greek Islands and ended up wandering through the back streets of Rhodes."
Rhodes, South Aegean, Greece
"We tooled around the Greek Islands and ended up wandering through the back streets of Rhodes."
New York, United States
"I heard her speak in New York, and hearing her tell stories about what it was like to live as a kid on this island and run barefoot through the streets and swim on the beach and dive off on the rocks, it just felt so normal, and it was so beautiful to get a human perspective of what it was like there before."
Bologna, Italy
"I love that through Esti, who comes from Rhodes to study in Bologna, you brought the story of Greek Jews to this story."
Florence, Italy
"And so he was helping to shuttle falsified IDs in the frame of his bike to and from Florence."

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