Thomas Buergenthal served for more than 10 years as the American judge on the International Court of Justice in The Hague before returning to the United States in September 2010. He is a former President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and former member of the UN Human Rights Committee. Recipient of the Gruber Foundation International Justice Prize and member of the Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee, Buergenthal has been re-appointed professor of international law and human rights at the George Washington University Law School, where he had taught before his election to the ICJ.

Books by Thomas Buergenthal

A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

by Thomas Buergenthal

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. Almost two years after his liberation, Buergenthal was miraculously reunited with his mother and in 1951 arrived in the country to start a new life.