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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 A LUCKY CHILD. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal 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. Now dedicated to helping those subjected to tyranny throughout the world, Buergenthal writes his story with a simple clarity that highlights the stark details of unimaginable hardship. A LUCKY CHILD is an audiobook that demands to be heard by all.

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"""A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances."" -- ""Elizabeth McCracken, author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination"" ""A remarkable, sometimes astonishing story of finding protection and kindness from unlikely sources, uncanny narrow escapes, and a powerfully strong will to live."" -- ""Atlanta Journal-Constitution"" ""Buergenthal's authentic, moving tale reveals that his lifelong commitment to human rights sprang from the ashes of Auschwitz."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""It is the detachment of distance, coupled with the author's gracious spirit, that steers the prose away from self-pity or anger...It is was makes this memoir so rewarding: in the darkness, the indomitable spirit of the child."" -- ""Telegraph (London)"" ""The author's story if astonishing and moving, and his capacity for forgiveness is remarkably heartening. An important new voice joins the chorus of survivors."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""The clear, nonhectoring prose makes Buergenthal's personal story--and the enduring ethical questions it prompts--the stuff of a fast, gripping read."" -- ""Booklist"" ""The unsentimental tone of Buergenthal's writing magnifies his deliberate decision not to make melodrama out of a story that is plenty dramatic enough. Like Primo Levi and Anne Frank, Buergenthal can only tell the story of one life, but through that life we are led to consider and honor all the lives of those who weren't so lucky."" -- ""Kate Braestrup, New York Times bestselling author of Here If You Need Me"" ""Thomas Buergenthal is not your average misery memoirist...What he has to say, both in bearing witness to the Holocaust and in describing his moral coming-to-adulthood, deserves our attention...His is an extraordinary story and he tells it straight."" -- ""Daily Mail (London) """

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Coming soon... Coming soon... Don Hagen has been behind the microphone since fifth grade. He is a nine-time winner of the Peer Award for narration/voice-over and twice winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award. He has also been heard in radio and television commercials and documentaries. In addition to his freelance voice work, he is a member of the audiobook narration team at the Library of Congress.

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