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Radio 3,11 mins

Matthew Sweet talks to Thomas Buergenthal, Holocaust survivor

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Matthew Sweet interviews Holocaust survivor Thomas Buergenthal, whose memoir A Lucky Child describes his experience in Nazi death camps and his subsequent career as a human rights judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He talks about how his past has informed his understanding of modern-day war crimes. Originally broadcast on 14 January 2009.

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