Thomas at age 13 months with his father, Mundek Buergenthal. Czechoslovakia, June 1935. Photograph »
Thomas's parents, Mundek and Gerda (b. 1912). Czechoslovakia, 1933 or 1934. Photograph »
Three-year-old Thomas during a stay at a hotel in Czechoslovakia, 1937. Photograph »
Three-year-old Thomas with his parents, Mundek and Gerda. Czechoslovakia, June 1937. Photograph »
Thomas in his toy car, 1936. Photograph »
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. Photograph »
Thomas with his mother, Gerda, in Goettingen, Germany, 1950. Photograph »
Thomas with his mother, Gerda, before Thomas's departure for the United States. Bad Neuheim, Germany, summer 1951. Photograph »
Thomas (standing, right), then known as "Tommy," with relatives shortly after arriving in the United States. New Jersey, ca. 1952. Photograph »
Thomas as a student at New York University, 1957-1960. Photograph »
Thomas as a law student, 1959-1960. Photograph »
Thomas with his first wife, Dorothy, at the Zeta Tau Alpha Spring Formal, 1957. Photograph »
Judge Thomas Buergenthal, member of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, San Jose, Costa Rica, 1980. Photograph »
1984 photo of Thomas's mother, Gerda, at age 72. Photograph »
Judge Thomas Buergenthal (front row, right) with other members of the Inter-American Court of Justice in San Jose, Costa Rica. Thomas served from 1979-1991 and was president from 1985-1987. San Jose, Costa Rica, 1980. Photograph »
From left to right: former US President Jimmy Carter, Judge Thomas Buergenthal, former UN ambassador Andrew Young. Judge Buergenthal was the director of the human rights program for the Carter Center from 1986–1989. Photograph »
Thomas at Auschwitz in 1995, fifty years to the day after his forced march out of the camp as a child. Poland, 1995. Photograph »
Thomas with his first grandchild, Eliza. 1996. Photograph »
Thomas's three sons, Robert, John (holding daughter Eliza), and Alan. 1996. Photograph »
Judge Thomas Buergenthal (top row, fifth from left) and other members of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. 1995. Photograph »
Judge Thomas Buergenthal, formal portrait for the International Court of Justice in the Hague. ca. 2003. Photograph »
Photograph of Thomas with his wife, Peggy. Photograph »
