Raphael Lemkin

Raphael Lemkin

Raphael Lemkin (Polish: Rafał Lemkin; 24 June 1900 – 28 August 1959) was a lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent. Before World War II, Lemkin was interested in the Armenian Genocide and campaigned in the League of Nations to ban what he called "barbarity" and "vandalism". He is best known for his work against genocide, a word he coined in 1943 from the root words genos (Greek for family, tribe or race) and -cide (Latin for killing).

Death

Lemkin died of a heart attack at the public relations office of Milton H. Blow in New York City in 1959, at the age of 59.

Raphael Lemkin Media

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  2008 plaque commemorating Lemkin's pre-war residence, 6 Kredytowa Street, Warsaw, Poland

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  Dedication by Lemkin in "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe" to Max Huber, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross

• "The origin of the word genocide" (CBS News)

Other websites

• Biographical sketch of Raphael Lemkin
• Key writings of Raphael Lemkin on Genocide, 1933–1947
• Raphael Lemkin at ArmeniaPedia