Raphael Lemkin
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Lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent
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Why Is Raphael Lemkin Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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 atrocities in Axis-occupied Europe. It was during this time that Lemkin coined the term "genocide" to describe Nazi Germany's extermination policies against Jews and Poles.
Raphael Lemkin's Published Works
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- Axis Rule in Occupied Europe (1945) (240)
- Genocide as a Crime under International Law (1947) (128)
- Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress (1946) (84)
- Tasmania (1907) (17)
- Genocide, a new international crime : punishment and prevention| (1946) (8)
- Orphans of Living Parents: A Comparative Legal and Sociological View (1944) (5)
- The polish penal code of 1932 and the law of minor offenses (1939) (3)
- Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. (1945) (2)
- The Treatment of Young Offenders in Continental Europe (1942) (2)
- Law and Administration in Military Occupation: A Review of Two Recent Books (1945) (0)
- SEGAL, SIMON. The New Order in Poland. Pp. xii, 286, i-x. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. $3.00 (1943) (0)
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