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title: "A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy Paperback – Picture Book, September 16, 2010"
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# A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy Paperback – Picture Book, September 16, 2010

**Brand:** thomas buergenthalelie wiesel
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- **What is this?** A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy Paperback – Picture Book, September 16, 2010 by thomas buergenthalelie wiesel
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## Customer Reviews

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    Highly recommended Holocaust memoir
  

*by L***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 10, 2015*

I think it is my duty, not so much as a German (born to non-Nazis in 1939) but as a human being, to keep reading Holocaust memoirs. I cannot read too many in a row, but I read several every year.Yes, Thomas Buergenthal was “A Lucky Child”; otherwise, he would not have lived to write this memoir. But as Ruth Klueger points out in her philosophical Holocaust memoir “Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered”, the luck of the Holocaust survivors does not diminish the dimension of the crime, and the survivors cannot be used as “credits” to be subtracted from the great “debit”.Thomas Buergenthal’s story lets you shudder at how much repeated miraculous luck was necessary for his survival. Religious people will probably replace the term “luck” with other terms. Buergenthal, however, is not religious and attributes his survival to luck.All Holocaust memoirs (i.e., those that stick to the truth and don’t mix facts with fiction) are worthwhile reading, but one cannot possibly read them all. So I try to find those memoirs that are well written and provide some more insights than others. “A Lucky Child” is certainly one of them.Each Holocaust survivor has his or her own story, the story of an individual experience. And while the dreadful living- and dying conditions in concentration camps and on death marches in all of these memoirs are quite alike, the personal experiences differ. What also differs is how the survivors and those in their surroundings deal with their ordeals.What makes this book especially interesting is that the memoir continues after the war and tells about the author’s adult life. Thomas Buergenthal was able to overcome his, quite understandable, initial hate for Germans. He became a human rights activist and a lawyer specialized on international law, dealing with prosecuting war crimes and human rights violations.I strongly recommend the reading of this book. It should, along with some other Holocaust memoirs, be mandatory reading in schools all over the world.Other highly recommendable Holocaust memoirs are:Elie Wiesel’s “Night”Primo Levi’s “Survival in Auschwitz” (orig. title: “If This is a Man”) and its sequel “The Reawakening”—See my review at: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Ruth Klueger’s “Still Alive: A Girlhood Remembered”See my review at: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Peter Kubicek’s “Memories of Evil”See my review at: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...andTema Merback’s “In the Face of Evil”, based on her mother’s Holocaust survivalSee my review at: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...One should also not miss “The Complete Maus”, by Art Spiegelman

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    Must read
  

*by M***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 27, 2022*

I found the first published copy at a yard sale. Read it every chance I could during work. By day 1 I only had 3 more chapters to go. I forgot the book the next day at home and on my lunch I had to buy the digital copy to finish reading it. Couldn't wait till I got home to finish it. It's definitely and book you won't be able to put down.

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    A must read
  

*by B***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 14, 2021*

I read this book  in a day, unwilling to put it down.  As a German this part of our history has always haunted me. I never stop asking g myself what I would have done had I lived through those terrible times.  Would I have looked away like so many, pretend I g I didn't see what was happening? I will never know a definite answer to this question.Thank you for writing this book and for your life long commitment for human rights.

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