Raphael Lemkin (Polish: Rafał Lemkin; 24 June 1900 – 28 August 1959) was a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent who is known for coining the term genocide and...

term 'genocide' was coined in 1944 by a Jewish Polish legal scholar, Raphael Lemkin, who wrote that "the term does not necessarily signify mass killings"...

Genocide has been referred to as the "crime of crimes". Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe...

into the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, naming it affer Raphael Lemkin and expanding its focus worldwide.[citation needed] The Lemkin Institute...

1971), American game designer Raphael Lasker (1838–1904), German-American rabbi Raphael Lemkin, Holocaust survivor Raphael Martelli (1811–1880), first Catholic...

and the European Union had recognised the Holodomor as a genocide. Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term "genocide" and initiated the Genocide Convention...

racial, religious, or national group. The term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and...

racial, religious, or national group. The term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and...

Genocide became a field of study in the mid-1940s, with the work of Raphael Lemkin, who coined genocide and started genocide research, and its primary...

(Greek: "birth", "kind", or "race") and an English suffix -cide by Raphael Lemkin in 1944; however, the precise etymology of the word is a compound of...