Lemkin coins the word 'genocide'
1944 · Event
Raphael Lemkin — a Polish-Jewish lawyer who lost 49 relatives to the catastrophe he was naming — publishes the word he built from Greek and Latin for the crime that had no name. Four years later the UN adopts the Genocide Convention he had championed; the word, and the law, are his monument.
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