Philippe Sands (centre) with Niklas Frank (left) and Horst von Wächter (right) in the killings fields of Ukraine
: Ian Kershaw–the fall and rise of modern Europe
Like many other descendants of Holocaust victims, Philippe Sands wanted to find out more about the circumstances of their deaths. The lawyer and academic, author of Lawless World and Torture Team, travelled to the Ukrainian city of Lviv in 2010, where his grandfather was born in 1904. “He never wanted to talk about it,” Sands told me, referring to the deaths of 80 members of …read more
Source: Prospect
