Then, too, there are Mila and Felicia, Jakob and Bella, each with their own share of struggles-pain endured, horrors witnessed. Addy, middle child, a composer and engineer before the war breaks out, leaves Europe on one of the last passenger ships, ending up thousands of miles away. Halina, youngest of all the children, works to protect her family alongside her resistance-fighter husband. Genek, the oldest son, is exiled with his wife to a Siberian gulag. But that lifestyle is no protection against the onslaught of the Holocaust, which eventually scatters the members of the Kurc family among several continents. Sol and Nechuma Kurc, wealthy, cultured Jews in Radom, Poland, are successful shop owners they and their grown children live a comfortable lifestyle. Hunter’s debut novel tracks the experiences of her family members during the Holocaust.
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