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CinemaMappedWe Were the Lucky Ones › Kraków, Poland
SeriesEastern Front1939

Kraków, Poland

We Were the Lucky Ones — Poland

Scene

The Zysman family — a large Polish Jewish family — is torn apart by the German and Soviet invasions of 1939, each member surviving through different paths across the globe.

History

Based on the true story of the Jaffa family. Nechuma and Sol Jaffa survived in Kraków under Nazi occupation while their children scattered across four continents. Georgia Hunter discovered the story researching her family tree and published the novel in 2017. It is one of the most comprehensively documented family survival stories of the Holocaust.

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