A Lucky Child: a Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young.
A prolific author, Judge Buergenthal co-authored (with Louis B. Sohn) the first American law school course book on international human rights law, which led to the introduction of international human rights courses and seminars in American law schools. His memoir, A Lucky Child, has been published in Europe and will be available in the United States in 2009.
Buergenthal is the author of more than a dozen books and a large number of articles dealing with international law and human rights subjects. His memoir, A Lucky Child, which was published in the U.S. and U.K. in 2009, has been translated into various languages, among them German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish.
Book Review: A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal. By. guestauthor. Facebook. Twitter. WhatsApp. A moving, cool account of a searing, terrifying childhood. Wartime heroism takes many forms. Survival, honorably achieved, is the basis of this memoir of one young boy’s victory over the unimaginable cruelties, the starvation and brutality of the Nazi concentration camps. It’s a story told.
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Thomas Buergenthal reflects on the importance of memorials. Judge Thomas Buergenthal was one of the youngest survivors of the Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. He immigrated to the United States at the age of 17. Judge Buergenthal has devoted his life to international and human rights law. A former chairman of the Museum’s Committee on Conscience, he is currently the Lobingier.
This summer Thomas Buergenthal LL.M. ’61 S.J.D. ’68 will begin writing a sequel to “A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy,” published in 2009. It is a harrowing, moving account of how Thomas, age 5, and his mother and father were trapped in Poland in 1939 after the invading Germans bombed their train as they fled toward England. Forced into a Jewish ghetto and.
A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal. 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.