Calle Este-Oeste

Lviv—the city of a thousand names (Leópolis, Lemberg, Lwów)—is the epicenter of this extraordinary narrative. It intertwines the author’s family history with the fates of three key twentieth-century figures: the high-ranking Nazi official Hans Frank—the first major implementer of the "Final Solution" as governor of occupied Poland—and the Jewish jurists Hersch Lauterpacht and Rafael Lemkin, the architects of the concepts of "crimes against humanity" and "genocide," which form a fundamental legacy of the Nuremberg Trials. From the subtle connections between these four figures, the past, the Shoah, History with a capital H, and intimate personal stories emerge; in the face of horror, a thirst for justice and a determination to understand what happened arise.