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Les négociateurs
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Un Voyage oublié
"En 1951, un jeune homme de 19 ans s'évade de Yougoslavie en participant à un détournement d'avion. A l'époque, l'expression n'existe pas encore. Ce 'kidnapping aérien', comme l'appelle la presse d'alors survient en effet près de dix ans avant le temps des pirates de l'air. L'appareil de ligne, un DC-3 avec vingt-deux passagers à son bord, se pose en Suisse après s'être faufilé dans les vallées des Alpes pour échapper au radar américain de Munich. Le jeune garçon, complice des pilotes, se sent homme et libre le même jour. Quel sentiment de triomphe! Il risque cependant d'être extradé. L'acte de 'choisir la liberté' n'est-il pas de nature politique, impliquant un certain idéal de vie qui vaut la peine d'être défendu? Il s'interroge. Il se souvient. Il attend. Le verdict tombera de la Cour suprême helvétique"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.
The Righteous of Switzerland
The English edition includes statements and speeches by various persons (pp. xvii-xxxviii), the stories of two more Swiss citizens nominated by Yad Vashem for recognition as Righteous of the Nations, and other lesser-known accounts of Swiss citizens who helped save Jews during the war. Some of them are published here for the first time.
Pierre Arnold
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Pierre Arnold
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Lessons and Legacies
Lessons and Legacies II focuses on matters unique to Holocaust education. Consisting of selected papers delivered at the second Lessons and Legacies conference in 1992, the volume is organized in three sections: Issues, Resources, and Applications.
The Humanitarians
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) coordinates the world's largest private relief system for conflict situations. Its staff operates throughout the world, and in recent years the ICRC has mounted large operations in the Balkans and Somalia. Yet despite its very important role its internal workings are mysterious and often secretive. This book examines the ICRC from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day, and provides a comprehensive overview of a unique private organisation, whose governing body remains all-Swiss, but which is recognized in international law as if it were an inter-governmental organization. David Forsythe focuses on the policy making and field work of the ICRC, while not ignoring international humanitarian law. He explores how it exercises its independence, impartiality, and neutrality to try to protect prisoners in Iraq, displaced and starving civilians in Somalia, and families separated by conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. David Forsythe received the Distinguished Scholar Award for 2007 from the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association.
