A lucky child
Subtitle: a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
By: Thomas Buergenthal.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780316043403; 9781846681783
Subjects: Buergenthal, Thomas -- Childhood and youth; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Personal narratives; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German; Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Personal narratives.; Biography..
Description: Thomas Buergenthal is a judge at the International Court in The Hague who was rescued from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven by Soviet and Polish troops. These memoirs present the story of his extraordinary journey - from the horrors of Nazism to an investigation of modern day genocide.
Table of contents: title: From Lubochna to Poland; title: Katowice; title: The ghetto of Kielce; title: Auschwitz; title: The Auschwitz death transport; title: Liberation; title: Into the Polish Army; title: Waiting to be found; title: A new beginning; title: Life in Germany; title: To America.