Title: A lucky child
Subtitle: a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
First published: 2009
Description: Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague  , tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A LUCKY CHILD. He arrived at Auschwitz  at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck to survive on his own. Almost two years after his liberation, Buergenthal was miraculously reunited with his mother and in 1951 arrived in the U.S.  to start a new life.Now dedicated to helping those subjected to tyranny throughout the world, Buergenthal writes his story with a simple clarity that highlights the stark details of unimaginable hardship. A LUCKY CHILD is a book that demands to be read by all.
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp), Biography.., Holocaust survivors, Antiquarian, Jewish children in the Holocaust, German Prisoners and prisons, World War, 1939-1945, Biography & Autobiography, Personal narratives, Childhood and youth, Biography, Nonfiction, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, german, Jews, biography, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jewish children, Poland, biography, Autobiography and memoir
Places: United States, Poland
People: Thomas Buergenthal
LC classification: D810.C4 B84 2009