Thomas Buergenthal was born in 1934,Lubochna,Czechoslovakia soon after his parents had moved there from Germany. He and his family then moved poland to escape jewish harassment. They then were scheduled to move to Great Britain but before they had Hitler invaded. Thomas his family forced to move to a Jewish ghetto in Kielce. When the ghetto was liquidated he avoided being sent immediately to a death camp and was,with his parents,sent to a labor camp where they worked on building carts for the germans. While he was there he went to the commander of the camp and asked if he needed an errand boy,to which the commander agreed. He then spent his time doing things for him like deliver messages but also,using a sign they came up with,notified the other prisoners whenever the commander was coming so that they could make sure to be working extra hard because if a prisoner was caught working slowly,he was beaten to near death. “But what else could we do but hope? That after all is human nature.” “That hope never left us, and it sustained us in the years to come, despite the fact that we had no good reason to expect our situation to improve.” (The lucky child,by Thomas Buergenthal) …show more content…
To escape the germans forced all the prisoners on a death march to Sachsenhausen through the freezing cold. The trip was three days and Thomas made this trip as a ten year old,got frostbite on one foot and once he arrived found that he was the only child left,the others both died during the march. At the camp he and several others were left behind because they couldn’t walk and were found by the soviets who liberated the camp soon after the battle of