The book East-West Street: Return to Lviv by Philip Sands

When renowned international lawyer Philip Sands received an invitation to give a lecture to law students in Lviv, he decided that it was also an opportunity to discover the city of his grandfather, who did not like to talk about the past.

Why did Lviv become the starting point of modern international law? What is the relationship to this of the most prominent international lawyers Lauterpacht and Lemkin, whose efforts led to the inclusion of the terms "crimes against humanity" and "genocide" in the Nuremberg trials? Building a powerful journey-meditation in which, on the path of memory, crimes and offenses leave scars in generations, with gaps that will always be secrets for others, the author ultimately finds unexpected answers to questions about his family for himself.

This book is an attempt to talk about the past, in it you will read at the same time a historical detective story, a family story, and a legal thriller in which Philip Sands travels between the past and the present, weaving several stories into one.

The cover uses a photo kindly provided by Niklas Frank.