We Were the Lucky Ones

...for the most part the series succeeds, making its title capture the vexing uplifting message it purports to illuminate.

...is both distressing and inspiring as it tells the harrowing Holocaust survival stories of an extended Polish Jewish family.

A heartening story of Holocaust survival.

...a defiant and harrowing, soul shattering story—one that gives the full range of the horrors that occur when you’ve been displaced, unmoored, and dehumanized.   

...a series whose whole is so much greater than the sum of its parts, tackling themes of family, loyalty, love, trauma, and tragedy in ways that will feel almost painfully prescient when compared to our current global moment.