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A Lucky Child

A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

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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. ... more

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Thomas Buergenthal is a judge at the International Court of Justice at The Hague. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he served as the first US Judge and later, President, of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He has also served as a member of the UN Human Rights Committee. He has authored over a dozen books on international law, and is the subject of a biography, entitled Tommy, by the Norwegian humanitarian and UNICEF founder, Odd Nansen. Judge Buergenthal was also the co-recipient of the 2008 Gruber Foundation International Justice Prize.

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9780316043403_154X233
Little Brown and Company
Category:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, HISTORY
Format:
HARDCOVER BOOK
Publish Date:
4/20/2009
Price:
$24.99/$27.99
ISBN:
9780316043403
Pages:
256
Size:
5-1/2" x 8-1/4"

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