The story of Raphael Lemkin
Polish-born jurist who coined the word genocide in 1944 and campaigned for the 1948 Genocide Convention.
Raphael Lemkin. Polish-born jurist who coined the word genocide in 1944 and campaigned for the 1948 Genocide Convention.
1953
Raphael Lemkin intervened in Whether the Holodomor was genocide. 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”.
Raphael Lemkin authored Soviet Genocide in the Ukraine (1953).
Known here only as quoted in a U.S. Senate resolution; the essay itself was not read.
Raphael Lemkin, influenced by Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian, Berlin 1921.
According to Raphael Lemkin.
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