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  • Thomas in his toy car

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    Photograph of a young Thomas Buergenthal posing in his toy car as his mother sits alongside. 1936.

    Thomas in his toy car
  • Thomas Buergenthal with the soldier who realized that Thomas was Jewish and took him to an orphanage

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    Thomas (left), 6 months after liberation, with a soldier who realized that Thomas was Jewish and took him to an orphanage, ca. 1945. Thomas was eventually reunited with his mother. With the end of World War II and collapse of the Nazi regime, survivors of the Holocaust faced the daunting task of rebuilding their lives. With little in the way of financial resources and few, if any, surviving family members, most eventually emigrated from Europe to start their lives again. Between 1945 and 1952, more than…

    Thomas Buergenthal with the soldier who realized that Thomas was Jewish and took him to an orphanage
  • Thomas Buergenthal with his mother, Gerda, in Goettingen

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    Thomas Buergenthal with his mother, Gerda, in Goettingen, Germany, 1950. With the end of World War II and collapse of the Nazi regime, survivors of the Holocaust faced the daunting task of rebuilding their lives. With little in the way of financial resources and few, if any, surviving family members, most eventually emigrated from Europe to start their lives again. Between 1945 and 1952, more than 80,000 Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States. Thomas was one of them. 

    Thomas Buergenthal with his mother, Gerda, in Goettingen
  • Thomas with his mother, Gerda, before Thomas's departure for the United States

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    Thomas Buergenthal with his mother, Gerda, before Thomas's departure for the United States. Bad Neuheim, Germany, summer 1951. With the end of World War II and collapse of the Nazi regime, survivors of the Holocaust faced the daunting task of rebuilding their lives. With little in the way of financial resources and few, if any, surviving family members, most eventually emigrated from Europe to start their lives again. Between 1945 and 1952, more than 80,000 Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United…

    Thomas with his mother, Gerda, before Thomas's departure for the United States
  • Thomas Buergenthal after arriving in the United States

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    Thomas (standing, right), then known as "Tommy," with relatives shortly after arriving in the United States. New Jersey, ca. 1952. With the end of World War II and collapse of the Nazi regime, survivors of the Holocaust faced the daunting task of rebuilding their lives. With little in the way of financial resources and few, if any, surviving family members, most eventually emigrated from Europe to start their lives again. Between 1945 and 1952, more than 80,000 Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United…

    Thomas Buergenthal after arriving in the United States
  • Thomas Buergenthal at New York University

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    Thomas Buergenthal as a student at New York University, 1957–60. With the end of World War II and collapse of the Nazi regime, survivors of the Holocaust faced the daunting task of rebuilding their lives. With little in the way of financial resources and few, if any, surviving family members, most eventually emigrated from Europe to start their lives again. Between 1945 and 1952, more than 80,000 Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States. Thomas was one of them. 

    Thomas Buergenthal at New York University
  • Thomas as a law student

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    Thomas Buergenthal as a law student, 1959–60. With the end of World War II and collapse of the Nazi regime, survivors of the Holocaust faced the daunting task of rebuilding their lives. With little in the way of financial resources and few, if any, surviving family members, most eventually emigrated from Europe to start their lives again. Between 1945 and 1952, more than 80,000 Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States. Thomas was one of them. 

    Thomas as a law student
  • Thomas Buergenthal with his first wife, Dorothy

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    Thomas with his first wife, Dorothy, at the Zeta Tau Alpha Spring Formal, 1957. With the end of World War II and collapse of the Nazi regime, survivors of the Holocaust faced the daunting task of rebuilding their lives. With little in the way of financial resources and few, if any, surviving family members, most eventually emigrated from Europe to start their lives again. Between 1945 and 1952, more than 80,000 Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States. Thomas was one of them. 

    Thomas Buergenthal with his first wife, Dorothy
  • Judge Thomas Buergenthal

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    Judge Thomas Buergenthal, member of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, San Jose, Costa Rica, 1980.

    Judge Thomas Buergenthal
  • Photograph of Thomas Buergenthal's mother

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    Photograph taken in 1984 of Thomas Buergenthal's mother, Gerda, then in her early 70s.

    Photograph of Thomas Buergenthal's mother

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