‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ Star Robin Weigert on the Holocaust Drama’s ‘Incredible Journey’ and Meeting Her Character’s Real-Life Granddaughter
variety.comHunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “Warsaw,” the sixth episode of “We Were the Lucky Ones,” now streaming on Hulu.
For the first time since World War II started on their doorstep in Poland in 1939, Nechuma and Sol Kurc are not living under the same roof.
At the start of Episode 6 of Hulu’s Holocaust drama “We Were the Lucky Ones,” based on Georgia Hunter’s novel, the Polish couple says goodbye to their eldest daughter Mila (Hadas Yaron) and young granddaughter Felice, who make a daring escape from the Radom ghetto by blending in as German citizens thanks, in part, to a coat made by Nechuma that’s deemed so stylish it couldn’t possibly be worn by a Jew.
A year later, in 1942, Nechuma (Robin Weigert) and Sol (Lior Ashkenazi) have been moved to the Pionki Gunpowder Factory outside Warsaw thanks to their daughter Halina (Joey King).
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