Philippe Sands is a human rights lawyer who has worked on cases involving crimes against humanity. Sands' grandfather was a Jew who lived in what is today the city of Lviv, Ukraine. The Nazis killed ...
In ‘East West Street’ (2016), the British human-rights lawyer Philippe Sands discovered the story of a man who had maintained a lifelong silence about his own story: his maternal grandfather, a Jew ...
Philippe Sands’s remarkable 2016 book, East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity,” weaves together the history of his family and that of two concepts central to his ...