About the Book: East West Street
When he receives an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Ukrainian city of
Lviv, international lawyer Philippe Sands begins a journey on the trail of his
familys secret history. In doing so, he uncovers an astonishing series of
coincidences that lead him halfway across the world, to the origins of
international law at the Nuremberg trial. Interweaving the stories of the two
Nuremberg prosecutors (Hersch Lauterpacht and Rafael Lemkin) who invented the
crimes or genocide and crimes against humanity, the Nazi governor responsible
for the murder of thousands in and around Lviv (Hans Frank), and incredible acts
of wartime bravery, EAST