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Author:
Buergenthal, Thomas, author. (local)344082
Title:
A lucky child : a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy / Thomas Buergenthal ; with a foreword by Elie Wiesel.
Edition:
Revised Back Bay paperback edition.
Publisher:
Back Bay Books,
Copyright Date:
2015, 2009, ℗♭2007
Description:
xix, 260, 22 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, facsimiles ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Buergenthal, Thomas--Childhood and youth.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography.
Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
Holocaust survivors--United States.
Other Authors:
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016, writer of supplementary textual conent. (local)344080
Other Titles:
Glu˜ckskind. English.
Notes:
Includes Reading group guide.
Summary:
Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in adulthood he became a judge at the International Court in The Hague. In his honest and heartfelt memoirs, he tells the story of his extraordinary journey - from the horrors of Nazism to an investigation of modern day genocide.
ISBN:
0316339180
9780316339186 (tpbk.) :
Locations:
MIPA194 -- Alta Vista Public Library (Alta Vista)
AFPD266 -- Bloomfield Public Library (Bloomfield)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

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