Won a Book: A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal
Filed Under (Won) by Morbid Romantic on Mar 31, 2009 @ 9:03 pm
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My mood is: 
Esctatic
All the ETC: 
It’s obvious by what is written on my sidebar but I have a degree in history as well as a certification to teach social studies to 6-12 students. For those two reasons, my history major senses are tingling with pure joy at this win. I just won a copy of A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal from So Many Previous Books, So Little Time.
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.
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