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Podcast: Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Episode: 002 Podcast Book Preview East West Street
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In this podcast I review Philippe Sandsβs award-winning book in search of his family and the origins of crimes against humanity and genocide. An international lawyer, Sands writes of his discovery that the lawyers responsible for these two innovations in international law shared a common origin with his grandfather and grandmother in the region of Lvov in pre-World War II Poland. Searching for the roots of his career and the answers to mysteries about the survival of his own family, Sands brilliantly relates a tale of memory, discovery and history. Podcast site photograph by Carol Highsmith of...