A lucky child
Subtitle: a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
By: Thomas Buergenthal ; with a foreword by Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Profile
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781846681851; 9781847651846
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Biography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Personal narratives; World War, 1939-1945; German Prisoners and prisons; Holocaust survivors; Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Work titles: Glückskind
Description: At the age of ten Thomas Buergenthal arrived at Auschwitz after surviving the Ghetto of Kielce and two labour camps, and was soon separated from his parents. Using his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck, he managed to survive until he was liberated from Sachsenhausen in 1945. After experiencing the turmoil of Europe's post-war years - from the Battle of Berlin, to a Jewish orphanage in Poland - Buergenthal went to America in the 1950s at the age of seventeen. He eventually became one of the world's leading experts on international law and human rights. His story of survival and his determination to use law and justice to prevent further genocide is an epic and inspirational journey through 20th Century history. His book is both a special historical document and a great literary achievement, comparable only to Primo Levi's masterpieces.
Notes: Originally published: 2009.

Translated from the German.
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.