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A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy / Thomas Buergenthal ; foreword by Elie Wiesel.

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. Arriving at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp, he became separated first from his mother and then his father but 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0316043400
ISBN: 9780316043397
ISBN: 9780316043403
Physical Description: xvii, 228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Edition: 1st American edition
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2009.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Target Audience Note:	1150L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 7.6 10 183183.