Full name: A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

Author: Thomas Buergenthal Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Memoirs, War/Military, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316043403 0316043400

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. Similar books: Rena's Promise by Rena Kornreich Gelissen Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo The Dentist of Auschwitz by Benjamin Jacobs Auschwitz by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk Alicia by Alicia Appleman-Jurman The Seamstress by Sara Tuvel Bernstein Fragments of Isabella by Isabella Leitner Clara's War by Clara Kramer Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyel In My Hands by Irene Gut Opdyke Searching for Schindler by Thomas Keneally Eyewitness Auschwitz by Filip Muller All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein Moments of Reprieve by Primo Levi Dry Tears by Nechama Tec The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer The Railway Man by Eric Lomax The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren I Shall Live by Henry Orenstein