I know - another Holocaust book. This one is a little different from the others. Buergenthal waited a very long time to commit his story to paper. It seemed to me that it was written more dispassionately than the other books. I didn't feel nearly the emotion that I usually do.
One day Thomas' mother, Gerda, went to a fortune-teller with a girlfriend. She took off her wedding ring before going in. Although 27 at the time, Gerda looked much younger than that and was surprised when the fortune-teller studied the cards and said that she was married and had one child. Then she proclaimed that the child was "ein Glueckskind" - a lucky child. She also said that he would survive the future that was coming. Indeed he seems to have been lucky at many times during the war. One of the different twists of this book is the last part of the book where he recounts the story of liberation and the long journey to be reunited with his mother.
Well worth the read.
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