Raphael Lemkin
Polish lawyer
Raphael Lemkin was a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent who is known for coining the term genocide and campaigning to establish the Genocide Convention. During the Second World War, he campaigned vigorously to raise international outrage against... Wikipedia
Born: June 24, 1900, Bezvodno, Belarus
Died: August 28, 1959 (age 59 years), New York, NY
Education: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (1921–1926), Jagiellonian University (1919–1921), and Heidelberg University
Known for: Coining the term genocide; Drafting the Genocide Convention
Nationality: Polish
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Raphael Lemkin was a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent who is known for coining the term genocide and campaigning to establish the Genocide Convention.
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The word “genocide” was first coined by Polish lawyer Raphäel Lemkin in 1944 in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. It consists of the Greek prefix genos ...
Raphaël Lemkin coined the word “genocide” in the winter of 1942 and inspired a movement in the United Nations to outlaw the crime.
Raphael Lemkin combined the Greek "genos" for race with the Latin "-cide ... Raphael Lemkin asked, "Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the ...
Lemkin grew up in a Polish Jewish family in the village of Bezwodene, which today is in Belarus. His interest in mass murder and justice began at an early ...