14 edition of A lucky child found in the catalog.
Published
2009
by Little, Brown in New York
.
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | Thomas Buergenthal. |
| Genre | Personal narratives., Biography.. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | D810.C4 B84 2009 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | p. cm. |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL21559845M |
| ISBN 10 | 0316043400 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780316043403, 9781846681783 |
| LC Control Number | 2008033732 |
A Lucky Child is a little different from other books on Holocaust because it is a memoir of a person, who as a child survived not only Auschwitz, but the ghetto that, like all Jewish ghettos, was liquidated, and two other labor camps. The miracle in it all is, Cited by: 2. Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A Lucky Child. He arrived Auschwitzat 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.
Lucky Child chronicles Loung’s struggles to uphold her family’s honor though she was forced to leave them in order to survive. As much Loung’s personal story as that of a war-torn family and nation, Lucky Child is a meditation on what might have been. This striking parallel of Loung’s life in America with her sister Chou’s life in. A Lucky Child is not one to miss - Libby Purves, Radio 4 Midweek. What makes this memoir so rewarding is, in the darkness, the indomitable spirit of the child - Genevieve Fox, Telegraph. A tour de force: simply narrated, at times almost naïve - and even more shocking as a result - .
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A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy, first published in Germanyis author Thomas Buergenthal’s account of his childhood during the Nazi Occupation.
Buergenthal was 6 years old when forced to abandon his home and spend the rest of his childhood running from Nazis and struggling to survive the Holocaust. After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind.
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