Philip Sands is a well-known British publicist, international lawyer, law professor who has taken part in many war crimes trials. Sands is the president of the British PEN club, a popular commentator on BBC and CNN programs, the author of 16 books and the winner of many awards, five of which he received for the book "East-West Street".The author explores his own roots from Lvov-Lemberg to Nuremberg, from the Nuremberg trials – today, because the very concepts of humanity and inhumanity are forever colored by the Holocaust and the verdict pronounced at the Nuremberg trials. And because the big story is so closely intertwined with the history of the family, the human in it is affirmed.