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Loading... A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy (Back Bay Readers' Pick) (edition 2010)by Thomas Buergenthal
Work InformationA Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal
  
No current Talk conversations about this book.  TheReadingTub | Mar 14, 2016 |    ) Schmerguls | Nov 24, 2013 | Kennyal | May 15, 2012 | This was a well-written look at Thomas life and survival during World War II. I found it to be unemotional at times, but that is because the book was written so far after the experiences. Overall, I think this is a unique story (child survivor), one that belongs in any holocaust collection ( ) JanaRose1 | Nov 22, 2011 | Buergenthal was only ten when he found himself at Auschwitz. Along the way, his father had devised ways for him to survive and avoid “being selected”. His memoir tells his amazing story of surviving the ghettos, labor camps and being separated from his parents as a ten year old child. Starved to the point of malnutrition, his father had warned him against eating food found in the garbage. In the last days of the war, now separated from his parents, he endured the Auschwitz death march. They walked 70km in three days, living on stale bread and handfuls of snow. Many collapsed and died or were shot by the roadside. As in all Holocaust memoirs, it is the randomness that is as horrible as anything. ( )1  Dufva | Sep 8, 2011 |
Et lykkebarn Gutten som overlevde Holocaust og ble dommer i Haag"Thomas Buergenthals liv fra han var syv til elleve år gammel kunne ikke vært mer dramatisk. [...] en svært tilgjengelig bok." – Sten Inge Jørgensen, VG, terningkast 5 10 år gammel hadde Thomas Buergenthal overlevd to polske ghettoer, Auschwitz og dødsmarsjen til Sachsenhausen. Odd Nansen berget livet hans i krigens siste dager. Dette er erindringer fra en barndom som brått ble forvandlet fra idyll til ghettoer og konsentrasjonsleire. Men det er også den gripende historien om gjenforeningen med moren og letingen etter redningsmannen Odd Nansen etter krigen. Vesle «Tommy» ble kjent for tusenvis av norske lesere gjennom Nansens bestselgende dagbok, og det ble et folkekrav i Norge å få vite hvordan det hadde gått med gutten. Erfaringene fra nazistenes folkemord og vennskapet med Odd Nansen ledet Thomas Buergenthal dit han er idag – til stillingen som dommer i Den internasjonale domstolen i Haag. Presse"Oppmuntrende selvbiografi fra et barn som overlevde Holocaust. [...] Den mest verdifulle dimensjonen i Buergenthals fremstilling er insisteringen på ærlighet og optimisme selv i en slik grufull kontekst. [...] Avslutningsvis leverer han krystallklare argumenter for at verden tross alt kan bevege seg fremover." – Sten Inge Jørgensen, VG, terningkast 5 "I´ve never read a holocaust memoir like this. The description of horrors is unflinching, yet full of wry insights into human character and underlying everything is an extraordinary generosity of spirit. But it is also the insights that Buergenthal brings from his work as a distinguished human rights lawyer that make the book quite remarkable. I´ve seldom been so fired up about a book – as we all are." – Andrew Franklin, Profile Books Belongs to Publisher SeriesGallimard, Folio (5332)
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. No library descriptions found. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers AlumThomas Buergenthal's book A LUCKY CHILD was available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.  Current DiscussionsNonePopular covers
 Google Books — Loading...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.5318092History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War II Social, political, economic history; Holocaust Holocaust History, geographic treatment, biography Holocaust victims biographies and autobiographiesLC ClassificationRatingAverage: (4.08)
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Pros: Thoughtful and thought provoking, A Lucky Child offers readers a personal story with a universal study of humanity's best (and ugliest) moments.
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