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

Title
A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy / Thomas Buergenthal ; with a foreword by Elie Wiesel.
Author
Buergenthal, Thomas
Publication
London : Profile, 2009.

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Description
xxi, 231 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.
Summary
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.
Uniform Title
Glückskind. English
Alternative Title
Glückskind.
Subject
  • Buergenthal, Thomas > Childhood and youth
  • 1939-1945
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust > Poland > Biography
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German
  • Holocaust survivors > United States > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies.
  • Personal narratives.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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
  • SCSB-11939775
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library