We Were the Lucky Ones

Previously, on We Were the Lucky Ones...

You have been deemed an enemy of the state.

Wait! He's an enemy, then I'm a fucking enemy.

You will work in the fields, and we'll provide you three rations a day.

You presented no evidence of your wife's pregnancy.

Evidence? Herta!

You play at war.

How does any of this make any fucking sense?!

Adam, you're the best forger we have.

Warsaw has been begging to get their hands on you.

They need you, Adam. I don't.

We have to get out of Casablanca immediately.

I told her I'm coming with you.

I'm sorry, I don't have a ring, but I love you, Eliska.

They just started grabbing Jews and beating them.

I'll be back. - Please stay. I'm begging you.

Anna, I can't.

Death squads.

Taking them to the forests

where no one can hear.

But I was hoping to find Adam here.

The last I saw him, he was heading here to you.

May you be blessed in Eretz Yisrael.

That woman is your mother.

Then run, Felicia, now! Run!

Rosh Hashanah is a time for reflection.

A time when we ask for forgiveness and seek to forgive others.

Though, frankly, I'm unsure of how we do that right now.

I pray that in this darkness

we let our family be our light.

May it be Your will to renew for us

a good... and a sweet new year.

Take it. Very expensive.

Shanah Tovah.

Mama! Mama!

Thank you.

Think of the geese in Kosciuszko Park, my love.

Can you do that for me? Yes.

Good.

Yeah, stay like this.

Passengers paid for tickets.

They sold us hope.

Hey, come, Fefe. Aye.

Oy, oy, oy, oy, oy, oy. Oof.

I'll speak to the Judenrat. They need to be informed.

When they are asked to make lists,

- we must be certain what they're for. - They knew what the lists are for.

- I cannot believe that to be true. - Then you are lying to yourself.

The Judenrat are our last line of defense.

Wake up, boy! They are complicit, and you are their henchman.

We are intermediaries.

We're attempting to create some order in this chaos.

What order? You police us,

patrol the streets with your uniform and baton,

- and make your lists. - I-I didn't, I didn't know

- this would happen. - Who are the lists for, Isaac?!

I have, I have only ever tried to help you.

And it is my shame... for accepting it.

It is my shame,

for not stopping her getting on those tracks.

It's my shame I did not see.

Mila, please, you must know how much I care for you and Felicia.

I would never put you in...

All I ask is that you remain quiet for now.

Let us not draw any further German aggression.

- For your own safety. - Who's safe anymore?

Leave my home, please.

He's afraid.

We are all afraid.

Where do we stand... when the bottom keeps dropping?

I want to give you something.

Hm.

I know that this is not the same.

Thank you, but I don't need it.

Let it help you remember him, keep him with you.

Today I watched a husband and wife

and their two children be shot, one after the other.

How am I supposed to believe that Selim is still alive after seeing that?

Did you hear about Amelia?

Yes. Rafa told me.

Her milk stopped coming in.

Her little one is only two weeks.

I know.

Dangerously underweight.

What?

You're already feeding another baby, plus Józef.

Please just remember to take care of yourself too.

I'm fine... I feel good.

I found some mushrooms.

Lots of nutrients. Hm?

Good for you, good for your little man.

I think something is happening. Hitler has turned on Stalin.

Keep working!

- Who did you hear this from? - Vanya and the others.

They are bickering over what to do with us.

Otto... if this is true...

- They should liberate us. - They should replace us with Germans!

I can still think of many ways they could still make use of us.

Hey, hey, hey. This is good news, Genek.

Be happy.

I'll go to Adam's.

Once you've checked on Anna, we meet right back at the apartment, okay?

Go, go.

Slow down, Bella, slow down.

What's that smell?

A-Anna?

Monsters.

Anna?

Anna?

Anna?

Anna?

Bella, there's hardly anyone left in the building.

No, you don't know that.

They could be hiding in an attic or a crawlspace.

What is that? What does it say?

Jakob, tell me.

"Th-They are taking us away.

I think they're going to kill us."

Oh, God!

Do you wanna wear your new sweater, Ze?

Hm? Yeah. Time for us to leave this godforsaken place. Yes.

Don't you see the paradox?

Herta, can you please? Of course.

Thank you.

We're getting out of here. Can't that be something good? Hm?

They call it "amnesty,"

but we've been mandated to conscript in Stalin's Red Army.

It's hard to imagine you in a Soviet uniform.

You'll need tighter pants.

I don't trust these people for a second.

Hmm. We've been instructed to pack for a train ride.

A train ride to where?

I have déjà vu.

Perhaps you traveled by cattle car with a different wife and child.

The child part is new.

I just wish we knew where we were headed.

I wish I had some Rilke.

Ah, it's okay.

Oh, it's okay.

Quiet.

At least it stopped raining.

They can't take that from us.

How is Felicia?

She makes do.

Mostly stays quiet at home while I work at the factory.

- She's so quiet now. - Good.

Quiet is good.

Isaac, you look terrible.

I appreciate your honesty.

Have you been sleeping?

Uh, Shimon snores like an ox.

Are you no longer living with your family?

Isaac... I didn't realize...

Please, Mila, I'm on duty.

Then, don't act so distant with me.

We've known each other since we're Felicia's age.

My father didn't mean what he said.

If you would consider leaving the police...

I can't just leave.

There would be a place for you in our home.

Even if I did stay with you,

what circumstances would it be under?

As your friend?

Felicia's uncle?

We care about you a great deal.

We?

Isaac.

It's okay.

Forget it.

How do women and children dance around at the gates of hell?

We don't exist to them.

I must be on my way.

I have to deliver some bad news to a family

whose son did not have his papers on him.

These killings are out of control.

It's only a matter of time for us all.

What are you looking for?

My sister's missing.

You don't want to go in there. The gunshots didn't stop for a week.

We need to go back to those woods.

- No, we can't. - No, Anna and Daniel, they might have run.

They might have found somewhere to hide.

Bella, you know how unlikely that is.

No, we've only been searching for a week, I don't know.

- I don't know anything. - Mm-hmm. Yes. Yes, you do. You do.

And we've already stayed here for too long.

It's time to go back to Radom.

No... I'm not ready to go back...

Wolf has arranged us a transport.

A delivery truck will be leaving for Radom at dawn

and we have to be on it.

Dawn?

But y-you waited, you waited to tell me until now?

It was just confirmed.

And, and you're ready?

Just ready to give up on Adam?

I'm not giving up.

He came back here for you.

I know that.

But, Bella, Adam would want us to be smart.