This is when she discovered that her grandfather was a Holocaust survivor. Hunter was assigned a school project on family history, and interviewed her grandmother. To her, he was a successful businessman, and a musician and composer. She was close to her grandfather, who had renamed himself Eddy Courts (from Addy Kurc) when he arrived in the States. Georgia Hunter was unaware of this family history during her American childhood.
Struggling to survive, the family is torn apart as each member responds as they must, fleeing, or hiding, or disguising themselves as non-Jews.
But in 1939, as Nazi Germany is rising and the five children have begun their own families and careers, Poland is invaded by Nazi Germany, and a short time later, by the Soviets from the east. Observant but not Orthodox Jews, they blended in with other upper-middle-class families, both Jewish and Polish, sending the children to private schools where most students were Catholic. Their world was filled with music, art, and love of family. Before World War II, her great-grandparents, Nechuma and Sol, owned a thriving business and with their five children, lived a comfortable life in Radom, Poland. Georgia Hunter has written an epic novel, We Were the Lucky Ones, based on a true family story.
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