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Author Becker, Annette

Title Messengers of Disaster Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth-Century Genocides
Published Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (272 p.)
Series George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas Ser
George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas Ser
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: the Unnamable is Unnamable -- 1. Karski the Soldier, Lemkin the Lawyer: 1939-40 -- 2. Karski Discovers the Annihilation of Lemkin's World: 1941-42 -- 3. Flashback: From Violence to Myth -- From One War, Another, 1942, 1914 -- 4. Naming a Nameless Crime: Lemkin and Karski in the United States, 1943-45 -- 5. The War Is Over: Weep for the Dead, Find the Living, Judge the Criminals -- 6. Becoming Karski, Becoming Lemkin: 1978-2018 -- Conclusion: Armenians, Jews, Tutsis -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Lemkin, Raphael, 1900-1959
Karski, Jan, 1914-2000
Genocide -- History -- 20th century
Genocide -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Genocide -- Armenia -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
Form Electronic book
Author Roth, Käthe
ISBN 9780299333232
029933323X