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A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy / Thomas Buergenthal.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: New York : Little, Brown, 2009.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xvii, 228 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780316043403
  • 0316043400
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • D810.C4 B84 2009
  • CT
Contents:
From Lubochna to Poland -- Katowice -- The ghetto of Kielce -- Auschwitz -- The Auschwitz death transport -- Liberation -- Into the Polish Army -- Waiting to be found -- A new beginning -- Life in Germany -- To America.
Summary: 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. Arriving at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp, he became separated first from his mother and then his father but 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.
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Book Book Speedway Adult Area Non-fiction 940.5318 BUE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 35550431046187
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From Lubochna to Poland -- Katowice -- The ghetto of Kielce -- Auschwitz -- The Auschwitz death transport -- Liberation -- Into the Polish Army -- Waiting to be found -- A new beginning -- Life in Germany -- To America.

Includes bibliographical references.

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. Arriving at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp, he became separated first from his mother and then his father but 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.

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