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Thomas Buergenthal: Holocaust Survivor to Human Rights Advocate

Thomas Buergenthal, himself a victim of serious human rights abuses as a child, has over the years established himself as a world leader in promoting international human rights law. One of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen, Buergenthal spent four of the first ten years of his life in Nazi concentration camps. The horrors he experienced in his youth have no doubt had much to do with his professional activities, which have propelled him into becoming an internationally acclaimed human rights advocate. After the war, Buergenthal immigrated to the United States, where he went to college and law school, earning, among other degrees, a doctorate in international legal studies from the Harvard Law School. He became a law professor, specializing in international law and international human rights. Without ever giving up a full-time academic career, Buergenthal has at different times during the past three decades served as judge and as President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, as one of three Commissioners on the UN Truth Commission for El Salvador, and as the first US citizen to be elected to the UN Human Rights Committee. He has represented the United States at various diplomatic conferences within the framework of UNESCO and the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, and was the founder and first President of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights in Costa Rica. Through his scholarship, judicial and diplomatic activities as well as the force of his personality and commitment, he has made lasting contributions to the cause of human