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Based on a true story, *We Were the Lucky Ones* follows the Kurcs, a prosperous Jewish family living in Radom, Poland, as the ominous shadow of World War II rapidly encroaches. At the onset of the conflict in 1939, the family of eight—parents Sol and Nechuma and their adult children Addy, Genek, Mila, Jakob, and Halina—are scattered across Europe and beyond. Despite the escalating terror of the Nazi occupation, their profound love and resilient hope spark a desperate, continent-spanning quest for survival.The narrative shifts between the terrifying realities endured by each sibling. In Poland, Mila and her infant daughter navigate the harrowing constraints of the ghetto, relying on forged papers, quick thinking, and sympathetic Polish citizens to avoid deportation to concentration camps. Meanwhile, Halina and her partner detour through harrowing escapes, assuming false Christian identities to blend into the hostile landscape, enduring forced labor and constant suspicion. Genek and his wife Herta are arrested and violently deported to a brutal Soviet gulag in Siberia, where they must endure sub-zero temperatures, starvation, and grueling manual labor simply to draw breath.Across the Atlantic, Addy, a talented musician and engineer visiting Paris when war breaks out, finds himself trapped. Desperate to rescue his family, he flees to Brazil, spending his days plagued by survivor's guilt while navigating endless bureaucratic red tape to secure visas and safe passage for his loved ones. Back in Europe, Jakob and his new wife Bella try to outrun capture, enduring agonizing separations and hiding in treacherous conditions as the net tightens around Poland’s remaining Jewish population.Throughout the years of unspeakable trauma, the family’s greatest driving force is an unwavering belief that they will one day reunite. They lean on sheer tenacity, moments of profound stranger-kindness, and encoded messages sent through the Red Cross to keep track of one another's survival. As the war finally staggers toward its conclusion, the family members face the agonizing aftermath of the Holocaust, mourning those lost while miraculously beginning to find their way back to one another. Culminating in an emotional and triumphant reunion in Warsaw and Paris, the series highlights the extraordinary triumph of human endurance, familial devotion, and the refusal to let darkness extinguish their legacy.