A Lucky Child
A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz As a Young Boy
New York : Little, Brown, 2009.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: xvii, 228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
A judge at the International Court in The Hague who was rescued from Auschwitz at the age of eleven presents the story of his extraordinary journey from the horrors of Nazism to an investigation of modern day genocide.
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.
Subjects:
Buergenthal, Thomas -- Childhood and youth.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography.
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Personal narratives.
Buergenthal, Thomas -- Childhood and youth.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography.
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Personal narratives.
Target Audience: 1150L
ISBN:
9780316043403
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Buergenthal, Thomas | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY Buergenthal, Thomas | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |