Back to Lemberg
Thursday 26 October 2017 at 7:30 PM
On the occasion of the publication of Return to Lemberg of Philippe Sands, ed. Albin Michel, 2017. Translated from English by
Astrid Von Busekist. With the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
© Éditions Albin Michel
Three names for the same city that was the scene of war crimes and the cradle of international law: first named Lemberg (under Austrian rule), then Lwów (under Polish rule), and finally Lviv. This book tells the story of four men who lived there: Leon Buchholz, the author’s grandfather, born in 1904, the only survivor of his family, Hersch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin, two Jewish jurists to whom we owe the concepts of "crime against humanity" and "genocide", and Hans Frank, a high-ranking Nazi dignitary and Hitler’s lawyer.
