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A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy / Thomas Buergenthal ; with a foreword by Elie Wiesel.
Author
Buergenthal, Thomas
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Uniform title
Glückskind.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Profile, 2009.
Description
xxi, 231 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
D810.C4 B8313 2009
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Subject(s)
Jewish children in the Holocaust
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Poland
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Biography
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World War, 1939-1945
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Prisoners and prisons, German
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Holocaust survivors
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United States
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Biography
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Buergenthal, Thomas
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Childhood and youth
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Autobiographies
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Personal narratives
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Getty AAT genre
autobiographies (literary works)
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Summary note
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.
Notes
Translation of: Glückskind.
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.
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ISBN
9781846681783 ((hbk.))
1846681782 ((hbk.))
OCLC
262720072
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