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Author Becker, Annette, author.

Title Messengers of disaster : Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and twentieth-century genocides / Annette Becker ; translated by Käthe Roth
Published Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2021]
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 260 pages) : illustrations
Series George L. Mosse series in the history of European culture, sexuality, and ideas
George L. Mosse series in the history of European culture, sexuality, and ideas.
Contents Introduction: The unnamable is unnamable -- Karski the soilder, Lemkin the lawyer : 1939-40 -- Karski discovers the annihilation of Lemkin's world : 1941-41 -- Flashback : from violence to myth ; from one war, another 1942,1914 -- Naming a nameless crime : Lemkin and Karski in the United States 1943-45 -- The war is over : weep for dead, find the living, judge the criminals -- Becoming Karski, becoming Lemkin : 1978-2018 Conclusion: Armenians, Jews, Tutsis
Notes "Originally published in French as 'Messagers du désastre: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski et les génocides,' copyright ©2018 by Librairie Arthème Fayard"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed March 6, 2024)
Subject Karski, Jan, 1914-2000.
Lemkin, Raphael, 1900-1959.
Lemkin, Raphael, 1900-1959
Karski, Jan, 1914-2000
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities.
Genocide -- Armenia -- History -- 20th century
Genocide -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Genocide -- History -- 20th century
Genocide
Atrocities
Europe
Armenia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Roth, Käthe, translator.
LC no. 2021008855
ISBN 9780299333232
029933323X
Other Titles Messagers du desastre. English