Messengers of Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth-Century Genocides - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Annette Becker, Käthe Roth (Translator)Series:George L. Mosse the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and IdeasPublish date:2022-01-11Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299333201ISBN-10:299333205UPC:9780299333201Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Genocide & War Crimes, EuropeBook Topic:20th Century, PolandSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCC8GVVR6D
Messengers of Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth-Century Genocides
Leading up to World War II, two Polish men witnessed the targeted extermination of Jews under Adolf Hitler and the German Reich before the reality of the Holocaust was widely known. Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who coined the term "genocide," and Jan Karski, a Catholic member of the Polish resistance, independently shared this knowledge with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Having...
Series: George L. Mosse the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299333201ISBN-10:299333205UPC:9780299333201Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Genocide & War Crimes, EuropeBook Topic:20th Century, PolandSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCC8GVVR6D
Annette Becker is a professor of contemporary history at Paris-Nanterre La Défense and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
Käthe Roth has been a literary translator with a specialty in historical nonfiction for more than thirty years.
Käthe Roth has been a literary translator with a specialty in historical nonfiction for more than thirty years.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
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