cover image A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

Thomas Buergenthal, , foreword by Elie Wiesel. . Little, Brown, $24.99 (228pp) ISBN 978-0-316-04340-3

With Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 21, 2009, four people—three survivors and one former Nazi youth leader—consider its impact on the direction of their postwar lives.

A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy Thomas Buergenthal , foreword by Elie Wiesel. Little, Brown , $24.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-316-04340-3

Not many children who entered Auschwitz lived to tell the tale. The American judge at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Czechoslovakia-born Buergenthal, is one of the few. A 10-year-old inmate in August 1944 at Birkenau, Buergenthal was one of the death camp's youngest prisoners. He miraculously survived, thanks, among others, to a friendly kapo who made him an errand boy. Buergenthal's authentic, moving tale reveals that his lifelong commitment to human rights sprang from the ashes of Auschwitz. 16 b&w photos, 1 map. (Apr. 20)