A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Book Type: Audio CD
Author:
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Book Type: Audio CD
I tend to read many accounts of people who were survivors of the Holocaust and this is one of the best ones I've listened to. The author speaks in the prologue and epilogue but has a professional narrator relating the rest of the book. This was a good decision since nothing detracts from the story itself but you still get to hear some of the story in the author's own words.
That being said, it is an amazing story of a 10 year old boy being transported to one of the most infamous concentration camps of the Holocaust,Auschwitz, and surviving through a combination of street-smarts, help from compassionate fellow prisoners. and, as he admits himself,no small measure of luck.
Mr Buergenthal also tells of his emigration to the US, becoming a lawyer andd serving as an American judge on the International Court of Justice.
So glad I got a chance to listen to this amazing story.
That being said, it is an amazing story of a 10 year old boy being transported to one of the most infamous concentration camps of the Holocaust,Auschwitz, and surviving through a combination of street-smarts, help from compassionate fellow prisoners. and, as he admits himself,no small measure of luck.
Mr Buergenthal also tells of his emigration to the US, becoming a lawyer andd serving as an American judge on the International Court of Justice.
So glad I got a chance to listen to this amazing story.
