I’ll never forget making a dozen trips to and from the airport that week to retrieve relatives arriving from France, Israel, Brazil, and all over the States, many of whom I’d never met before – nor will I forget the snippets of conversation I overheard upon stumbling into a conversation among my mother and her cousins one night after dinner. Years later, my parents hosted the first ever Kurc family reunion at our home in Massachusetts. Photo: Georgia Hunter with her Grandfather “They spoke very little of their experiences.” “I didn’t meet his family until 1946,” she said. When I asked my grandmother what happened to them, she shook her head. He’d spent years in South America, trying without success to reconnect with the parents and siblings he’d left behind in Poland.
“Eddy was living in France at the start of the war,” my grandmother said, explaining that he’d talked his way into a Brazilian visa, and had fled for Rio on a ship full of refugees in 1941. I sat down with my grandmother for an interview and it was then that I discovered, over the course of an hour, that my grandfather (whom I’d assumed until then to be American through and through) was raised in Poland, and that he came from a family of Holocaust survivors.
He’s repped by WME, Allison Binder and The Burstein Co.When I was fifteen years old, a year after my grandfather had passed away, my high school English teacher assigned our class an “I-Search” project – a study in looking back at our roots. Aloni appeared in HBO’s Scenes From a Marriage and currently stars in seasons one and two of The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem on Netflix. Their daughter is not yet a year old when Selim is called to fight at the start of the war. His rep is Kim Donovan at The Artists Partnership.Īloni will recur as Selim, the adoring husband of Mila (Hadas Yaron) who runs a medical research lab in Radom. Woolf plays Prince Edward in the sixth season of The Crown and is set to star in the next season of Netflix’s The Witcher playing Rience. Woolf, another series regular, will portray Adam, a skilled architect whose quiet intellect and keen attention to detail catch the eye of Halina ( Joey King), the youngest of the Kurc siblings.
Her reps are Yitzug 1 Artists & Creators LTD, A3 Artists Agency and Cavalry Media. The Israeli actress is known Lipsticka and Snails in the Rain. Rosenblatt will play the series regular role Herta, an uninhibited, playful presence who is the perfect counterpart to Genek. RELATED: 2022 Hulu Pilots & Series Orders
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