A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy / Thomas Buergenthal ; with a foreword by Elie Wiesel.

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Buergenthal, Thomas [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Profile, 2009.
Description
xxi, 231 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm

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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781846681783 ((hbk.))
    • 1846681782 ((hbk.))
    OCLC
    262720072
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