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Well now, Mr. Columnist, just what do you have for us today?

Since you asked, I’ll tell you. I know you are oh, so anxious to find out.

Yeah, sure.

Today’s offering, reader friends, is taken from a book.

A book, you say?

Yes, and one I can enthusiastically recommend you consider reading. The title is “A Lucky Child-A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy.”

At my suggestion, my Incomparable First Wife read it.

The author is Thomas Buergenthal; and the fore word is by Elie Wiesel (a well-known person to those who read this genre of books-himself a survivor of Auschwitz).

Let me, please indulge, me the following assessment, en breve, of “A Lucky Child…)

“In the plainest words and the steadiest tones (as an intimate would speak deadly truth in the dead of night) Thomas Buergenthal delivers to us the child he once was: an unblemished little boy made human prey by Europe’s indelible twentieth-century barbarism, criminality that will never leave off its telling.”

The only word that comes even close to describing those times is “evil”.

Evil beyond comprehension.

And yet, at the time of this writing (by me), the horror of that which Israel is experiencing is currently nothing less than evil, too. Words simply fail. History repeats itself.

May we pray for mercy.

Let me just add an incisive sentiment gleaned from the book: “hate and race and religious superiority have existed for centuries (and) caused so much suffering to mankind.” (Thomas Buergenthal)

In conclusion, I’ll share with you some of his endeavors during his adult career.

He is considered one of the world’s leading human rights law experts and has served as a judge in that International Court of Justice and as a judge and president of the International Court of Human Rights.

He is the Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at the

George Washington University Law School and the recipient of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 2015 Elie Wiesel Award.

Just think what the world would have been deined had that little boy not miraculously survived Auschwitz.

Unquestionably “miraculously” is the appropriate word.

Shalom