[HIGHLIGHTS] Auschwitz survivor and former ICJ judge, Thomas Buergenthal has died

American jurist Thomas Buergenthal, an Auschwitz survivor and former judge at the International Court of Justice, has died at the age of 89. He had been arrested and deported to the Auschwitz camps, of which he was one of the youngest survivors.

He was born on May 11, 1934 to a Jewish family in Lubochna (Czechoslovakia) He was a member of the Truth Commission for El Salvador in 1992-93, then honorary president of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIDH)