East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity” (Deckle Edge)

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A monumental achievement a profoundly personal account of the origins of crimes against humanity and genocide told with love anger and precision John le Carr A narrative to my knowledge unprecedented It will have to not be ignored by any individual in the US or elsewhere Bernard Henri Levy on the front cover of The New York Times Book Review Exceptional has the intrigue verve and material density of a first rate thriller The Guardian Astonishing An outstanding book A story of heroes and loss The New Statesma n A profound and profoundly important book 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 on account of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler s Third Reich East West Street looks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who concurrently originated the ideas of genocide and crimes against humanity either one of whom not knowing the other studied at the same university with the same professors in a city little known today that was once a major cultural center of Europe the little Paris of Ukraine a city variously known as Lemberg Lww Lvov or Lviv The book opens with the writer being invited to give a lecture on genocide and crimes against humanity at Lviv University Sands accepted the invitation with the intent of learning about the abnormal city with its rich cultural and intellectual life home to his maternal grandfather a Galician Jew who had been born there a century before and who d moved to Vienna at the outbreak of the First World War married had a child the writer s mother and who then had moved to Paris after the German annexation of Austria in 1938 It was once a life that had been shrouded in secrecy with many questions not to be asked and fewer answers offered if they were As the writer uncovered clue by clue the deliberately obscured story of his grandfathe

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