there. thank you for coming tonight. i am nick goldberg. have judge lucky to buergenthal here tonight. as louise said he has a law professor and a jurist. he has worked on the world court and the inter-american court for rights. he has done all kinds of extraordinary and wonderful things with his life but today we will talk almost exclusively about things that happened to him before he was 11 years old. judge buergenthal was born in czechoslovakia they gear after hitler s came to power in germany. his family fled to poland where not too longre afterwards he was confined it to the ghetto there. he was ultimately transported to auschwitz. of the auschwitz on one well-known death marches and he was finally liberated think in august of 1945. his story is a pretty extraordinary one. there are two really powerful themes that come out in this book in my view. one is this idea of luck and chance. the book is called a lucky child and there is an awful lot in the book about being in th