Podcast summary

Buergenthal, currently the American judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, arrived at Auschwitz at age ten, and was soon separated from his mother and then his father. In this inspiring memoir, he reminds us of the resilience of the human spirit.

Participant(s) Bio

Judge Thomas Buergenthal arrived at Auschwitz at age ten, and was soon separated from his mother and then his father. By some remarkable strokes of luck, he managed to survive until he was liberated from Sachsenhausen in 1945, and almost two years after his liberation, he was miraculously reunited with his mother. Since then, Buergenthal has devoted his life to international and human rights law. He received law degrees from New York University Law School and Harvard Law School and is currently the American judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Co recipient of the 2008 Gruber Foundation International Justice Prize, he lives in The Hague, Netherlands.

Nicholas Goldberg has been the editor of the op-ed page of the Los Angeles Times since 2003. Since 2007 he has also edited the paper's Sunday Opinion section. He is a former Middle East bureau chief for Newsday. In that position, he covered many major stories including the peace process in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza; presidential elections in Iran; arms monitoring in Iraq; famine in Sudan; and civil war in Algeria. From 1992 to 1995, he was the paper's statehouse bureau chief, covering the administrations of Governors Mario Cuomo and George Pataki. He also covered Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign.

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