The true story behind Hulu's 'We Were the Lucky Ones'

At the beginning of World War II, about 3.3 million Jewish people lived in Poland. After the war, about 380,000 Jews remained in Poland. Over the course of the war, about 90 percent of Polish Jews were murdered in ghettos or death camps, according to Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center. So the odds were against the Kurcs, a Jewish family living in Radom, Poland, when the Nazis invaded in 1939. Forced to separate at the beginning of the war, members of the Kurc family endured unimaginable heartbreak as...