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Beyond East West Street Personal Stories and Political Directions
BEYOND EAST WEST STREET PERSONAL STORIES AND POLITICAL DIRECTIONS EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 26 AUGUST 2017 I began to write East West Street late in 2010, after I first visited the city of Lviv. I travelled to the city in response to an invitation to deliver a lecture, on my work as an academic and as a barrister, on the law and cases of mass killing. This work touched on ‘genocide’ (concerned with the protection of groups) and ‘crimes against humanity’ (concerned with the protection of individuals). I accepted the invitation because I hoped to find the house where my grandfather Leon Buchholz was born in 1904. I wanted to understand the recesses of an unspoken family history and recover my hinterland and sense of identity. I found a remarkable city and, eventually, Leon’s house. 1 The Polish poet Józef Wittlin describes the essence of the city, and ‘being a Lvovian’, in his wonderful, slim volume Móy Lwów, first issued in 1946 and last year published in English for the first time by Pushkin Press – with wonderful photographs by Diana Matar – as City of Lions. To be a Lvovian, he wrote, is ‘an extraordinary mixture of nobility and roguery, wisdom and imbecility, poetry and vulgarity.’ He reminds his readers that ‘nostalgia even likes to falsify flavours too, telling us to taste nothing but the sweetness of Lwów today . but I know people for whom Lwów was a cup of gall.’ East West Street was published six years later, in late May 2016, by which time I had come to understand why Lviv was a cup of gall for my grandfather, a place of which he never spoke to me. -
The Berlin Memorandum
The Berlin Memorandum or, The Quiller Memorandum Quiller, #1 by Adam Hall, 1920-1995 Published: 1965 J J J J J I I I I I Table of Contents Introduction & Chapter 1 … Pol. Chapter 2 … The Hook. Chapter 3 … Snow. Chapter 4 … The Wall. Chapter 5 … Phoenix. Chapter 6 … Quota. Chapter 7 … Red Sector. Chapter 8 … Inga. Chapter 9 … The Kill. Chapter 10 … The Needle. Chapter 11 … Oktober. Chapter 12 … Narcosis. Chapter 13 … The Bridge. Chapter 14 … Libido. Chapter 15 … Blackout. Chapter 16 … Cipher. Chapter 17 … Ferret. Chapter 18 … Object 73. Chapter 19 … The Sepulchre. Chapter 20 … Bunkerkinder. Chapter 21 … Trap–Shoot. Chapter 22 … Corner. Chapter 23 … Signal Ends. J J J J J I I I I I Introduction The setting is the divided city of Berlin, some 15 years after the end of World War II. Quiller is an enigmatic (and unarmed) agent working in Berlin for an elusive intelligence agency. Besides the nature of his job, Quiller knows little about his employers, and he himself is something of a mystery. Quiller´s assignment is to penetrate a neo-Nazi organization called Phoenix, which has its secret headquarters in Berlin, and is run by a former SS officer named Heinrich Zossen, and Quiller knows him from the war. In an assignment that becomes a personal quest, Quiller wants to find Zossen and destroy him, though one agent has already died trying. Chapter 1 Pol. A couple of air-hostesses came in through the glass doors, crisp and pure- looking in Lufthansa uniform. They looked once at the group of pilots who stood at the soft-drinks bar then swung on their spiked heels to preen themselves in the mirrors. -
Jewish Genocide in Galicia
Jewish Genocide in Galicia Jewish Genocide in Galicia 2nd Edition With Appendix: Vernichtungslager ‘Bełżec’ Robin O’Neil Published by © Copyright Robin O’Neil 2015 JEWISH GENOCIDE IN GALICIA All rights reserved. The right of Robin O’Nei to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, nor translated into a machine language, without the written permission of the publisher. Condition of sale This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. ISBN Frontispiece: The Rabka 4 + 1 - incorporating the original book cover of Rudolf Reder’s ‘Bełżec’, 1946. 2nd Edition Part 1 2016: The Rabka Four + 1. First published 2011 under the title ‘The Rabka Four’. Contents Academic Excellence In Murder......................................i Dedication....................................................................... ii Lives Remembered .........................................................iv Note on Language...........................................................vi The Hunting Grounds for the Rabka 4 + 1 (zbV) 1941-1944 .........................................................................x -