Annual Glasgow University Holocaust Memorial Lecture – 5.30pm to 7.30pm

University of Glasgow Annual Holocaust Lecture 2017 – “East West Street: a personal take on Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity”.

Speaker –  Philippe Sands QC.

Professor Sands offers a lecture on the writing of his acclaimed new book – part historical detective story, part family history, part legal thriller. He centres on a remarkable, untold story of individual perseverance, how Rafael Lemkin and Hersch Lauterpacht – the lawyers who brought ‘genocide’ and ‘crimes against humanity’ into international law – learned  that the man they were prosecuting at Nuremberg – Hans Frank, Hitler’s personal lawyer and Governor General of occupied Poland – was responsible for the murder of their own families.

Copies of Professor Sands book will be available for purchase on the night, with a book signing taking place immediately afterwards.

Venue – Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre.

The lecture starts at 6 pm, but there will be tea and coffee from 5.30.

This event is free to attend, however you are required to register before attending – http://www.gla.ac.uk/alumni/events/headline_503716_en.html