Person
Raphael Lemkin
Polish-born jurist who coined the word genocide in 1944 and campaigned for the 1948 Genocide Convention.
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intervened in
- Whether the Holodomor was genocide 1953 his 1953 essay, as the Senate quotes it, calls the Soviet case "a case of genocide, of destruction, not of individuals only, but of a culture and a nation" Primary record 12
authored
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Soviet Genocide in the Ukraine (1953)
1953
Primary record
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Known here only as quoted in a U.S. Senate resolution; the essay itself was not read.
- Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin Scholarship & press 3
influenced
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
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45
As the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum puts it; the Convention was the work of the United Nations General Assembly.
influenced by
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Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian, Berlin 1921
According to Raphael Lemkin
Scholarship & press
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Lemkin's own account of what moved him.
Timeline 2 dates
- 1953 Raphael Lemkin intervened in Whether the Holodomor was genocide
- 1953 Raphael Lemkin authored Soviet Genocide in the Ukraine (1953)
Proof 5 sources
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S. Res. 435, 115th Congress: the 85th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933, known as the Holodomor, U.S. Senate, 3 Oct 2018.
Primary record
authored an essay in 1953 entitled, ``Soviet Genocide in [the] Ukraine,'' which highlighted the ``classic example of Soviet genocide,''
a case of genocide, of destruction, not of individuals only, but of a culture and a nation
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Historian Anne Applebaum Details Stalin's War Against Ukraine: 'I Believe It Was Genocide', Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 25 Sep 2017.
Scholarship & press
I'm very happy to call it a genocide, according to the original definition of the word genocide as it was invented by Raphael Lemkin, who was the lawyer who came up with the term.
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Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin (ed. Donna-Lee Frieze), Yale University Press, 2013 (full text at the Internet Archive), 2013.
Scholarship & press
Totally Unofficial
I didn't know all the answers but I felt that a law against this type of racial or religious murder must be adopted by the world.
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The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia.
Scholarship & press
In 1948, in part due to the tireless efforts of Lemkin, the UN approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 9 December 1948, The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 9 Dec 1948.
Primary record
Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948.
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