PHILIPPE SANDS: BIOGRAPHY OF HIS FAMILY
EAST WEST STREET: orIGINS OF GENOCIDE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize.
Philippe Sands recounts he tumultuous lives of his Jewish maternal grandparents, Leon and Rita Buchholz. Using a combination of detective and forensic research he traces their persecution in pre-war Lviv (now in Ukraine) their flight to Paris, and the loss of close relations in death camps. He weaves this personal story into the lives of two pioneering human rights lawyers, both from Lviv, Hersch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin. They played a key role in the Nuremberg trials, and laid the foundation for international human rights law.
John le Carre described Sands’ book as 'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision'. The Sunday Times described it as: 'One of the most gripping and powerful books imaginable'.
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Philippe Sands (born 1960) is a leading international human rights lawyer who has acted before numerous international courts and tribunals, inlcuding the Euopean Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court. He is Professor Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London and has written seventeen books on internatonal law. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University.
