... Raphael Lemkin, who combined the Greek word genos— clan or religious group— with the Latin word cide— killing. Genocide has come to mean "acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or ...

... RAPHAEL LEMKIN was a Polish lawyer who fled Nazism in 1939 and died in the U.S. in 1959. He's remembered because, in the 1940s, he coined the word "genocide," then campaigned to make it an international crime. In Lemkin's House by ...

... Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) of the Yale Law School, whose parents were purged in Poland. 2. In 1950 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, headed by Senator Connally of Texas, having before it the genocide treaty from President Truman ...

... Raphael Lemkin only in 1943, and adopted by the United Nations in 1948, after the Nazi Holocaust. Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines it as: "Any of the following ...

... Raphael Lemkin, who has probably done more than any other man towards bringing about the international condemnation of this crime, has defined it as involving: a wide range of actions, including not only the deprivation of life but also ...

... Raphael Lemkin, who combined the Greek word genos— clan or religious group— with the Latin word cide— killing. Genocide has come to mean "acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or ...

... Raphael Lem- kin of Yale, as a maneuver to divert attention from Russian atrocities. Dr. Lemkin coined the word "genocide" which means the willful killing of a race of people and which was first used against the Germans. Virgin Islands ...

... Raphael Lem- kin, a Polish Jew, coined the word genocide - the killing of a people. But Lemkin stopped short of saying what is demanded of us if we see a situation that meets that criterion. I think it's mandatory that we respond. TR ...