East West Street
On the Origins of Genocide ans Crimes Against Humanity
by Philippe Sands

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Author(s)

Philippe Sands

Publication, year

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016

Scope

466 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.

ISBN

9781474603553

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East West Street is a moving personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler’s Third Reich. It looks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who simultaneously originated the ideas of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity,” both of whom, not knowing the other, studied at the same university with the same professors, in a city little known today that was a major cultural center of Europe, “the little Paris of Ukraine,” a city variously called Lemberg, Lwów, Lvov, or Lviv.

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Location

Cabinet 30 - 2: Recht en Vrede ; See You in The Hague

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical sources, notes and Index.