East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
A Nonfiction, World War II, Law book. I was totally unprepared for how good a book this was. Let me try to explain.At...
A uniquely personal exploration of the origins of international law, centring on the Nuremberg Trials, the city of Lviv and a secret family historyWhen human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg trial.Part historical detective story, part family history, part legal thriller, Philippe Sands guides us between past and present as several interconnected stories unfold in parallel. The first is the hidden story of two Nuremberg prosecutors who discover, only at the end of the trial, that the man they are prosecuting may be responsible for the murder of their entire families in Nazi-occupied Poland, in and around Lviv. The two prosecutors, Hersch Lauterpacht and Rafael Lemkin, were remarkable men, whose efforts...
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East West Street by Philippe SandsIn 2010 the author was invited by the law faculty of the University of Lviv to deliver a lecture on his works involving crimes against humanity and genocide. He accepted knowing that it would be the perfect opportunity to find the unanswered questions about his grandfather Leon Buchholtz. The narrative... This is a magnificent work of scholarship combined with a profoundly moving personal story. On one level its an academic analysis of the words genocide and crimes against humanity, first used at the Nuremburg Trials and how these now familiar concepts came to be internationally accepted and enshrined in international law. At the same... I was totally unprepared for how good a book this was. Let me try to explain.At one level, this is an intellectual history of the evolution of two concepts central to international law since World War II and the Holocaust and still relevant today in the consideration of human rights abuses in conflicts all around the world. These are...
