In 1944, at the age of 10, Thomas Buergenthal arrived at Auschwitz after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated from his mother, then his father, he survived by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck. Almost two years after his liberation, he was reunited with his mother, and in 1951, arrived in the U.S. to start a new life. A past president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, he is a co-recipient of the 2008 Gruber Foundation International Justice Prize, and recently served as the American judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague.