A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
By Thomas Buergenthal
Read by Thomas Buergenthal and Don Hagen
Unabridged
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ISBN: 9798200560592
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| Runtime: | 5.94 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
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 an audiobook that demands to be heard by all.Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“The unsentimental tone of Buergenthal’s writing magnifies his deliberate decision not to make melodrama out of a story that is plenty dramatic enough. Like Primo Levi and Anne Frank, Buergenthal can only tell the story of one life, but through that life we are led to consider and honor all the lives of those who weren’t so lucky.” —Kate Braestrup, New York Times bestselling author of Here If You Need Me
“Thomas Buergenthal is not your average misery memoirist…What he has to say, both in bearing witness to the Holocaust and in describing his moral coming-to-adulthood, deserves our attention…His is an extraordinary story and he tells it straight.” —Daily Mail (London)
“It is the detachment of distance, coupled with the author’s gracious spirit, that steers the prose away from self-pity or anger…It is was makes this memoir so rewarding: in the darkness, the indomitable spirit of the child.” —Telegraph (London)
“A remarkable, sometimes astonishing story of finding protection and kindness from unlikely sources, uncanny narrow escapes, and a powerfully strong will to live.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Buergenthal’s authentic, moving tale reveals that his lifelong commitment to human rights sprang from the ashes of Auschwitz.” —Publishers Weekly
“The clear, nonhectoring prose makes Buergenthal’s personal story—and the enduring ethical questions it prompts—the stuff of a fast, gripping read.” —Booklist
“The author’s story if astonishing and moving, and his capacity for forgiveness is remarkably heartening. An important new voice joins the chorus of survivors.” —Kirkus Reviews
“A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.” —Elizabeth McCracken, author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
Author
Author Bio: Thomas Buergenthal
Thomas Buergenthal served for more than ten years as the American judge on the International Court of Justice in The Hague before returning to the United States in September 2010. He is a former president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and former member of the UN Human Rights Committee. A recipient of the Gruber Foundation International Justice Prize and member of the Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee, he has been reappointed professor of international law and human rights at the George Washington University Law School, where he had taught before his election to the ICJ.
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| Available Formats : | Retail CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
| Runtime: | 5.94 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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