Hersch Lauterpacht, professor of international law, was born in August 1897 in the small town of Żółkiew, a few miles from Lemberg, to which the family moved in 1911. The son of Aron and Deborah (née Turkenkopf), he was the second of three children, between his brother, David, and his sister, Sabina. In 1923, he married Rachel Steinberg in Vienna, and they had one son, Elihu, who was born in Cricklewood, London.
Hans Frank, a lawyer and government minister, was born in Karlsruhe in May 1900. He had two brothers, one older and one younger. In 1925, he married Brigitte (née Herbst), and they had two daughters and three sons, the last of whom was named Niklas. In August 1942, he spent two days in Lemberg, where he delivered several speeches.
Rafael Lemkin, a prosecutor and lawyer, was born in Ozerisko near Białystok, in June 1900. The son of Josef and Bella, he had two brothers (the older, Elias, and the younger, Samuel). In 1921, he moved to Lwów. He never married and had no children.
My grandfather Leon Buchholz was born in Lemberg in May 1904. The son of Pinkas, educated as a distiller of spirits and later an innkeeper, and Malke (née Flaschner), he was the youngest of four children, after his older brother, Emil, and two sisters, Gusta and Laura. He married Regina “Rita” Landes in Vienna in 1937, and a year later their daughter, Ruth, who is my mother, was born there.