![]() She traveled to Paris to sit down with family and walk the streets her grandfather strolled on the eve of World War II. It sat for several years before she got the courage to start with her first interviews of relatives in 2008. When Hunter raised the idea of chronicling their journey, her mother offered a binder of letters and photos she saved. ![]() Years later when Hunter decided on a career switch, the idea of telling her family’s story came back to her. ![]() Hunter first got a glimpse of her family’s history during an English assignment to look into her ancestral past when she was 15, but it wasn’t until that Massachusetts reunion that everything really clicked. ![]() The five siblings and their parents had two goals, Hunter said: to stay alive and to reunite. The novel, her first, tracks her grandfather and his Polish Jewish family as they scatter at the start of World War II. 27 at the Fairfield University Bookstore. The Norwalk resident is set to speak about her book Feb. Hunter didn’t expect it would be her to commit them to ink, but about a decade later “We Were the Lucky Ones” debuted on Feb. She left feeling someone in her family had to write down the stories of her grandfather, his four siblings and his parents during World War II and the Holocaust. “I started overhearing these stories that were pretty mind-blowing,” she said “I couldn’t believe I had never heard them before.” ![]()
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