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Lemkin, Raphael, 1900-1959

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Personal name headingLemkin, Raphael, 1900-1959
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Variant(s)Lemkin, R. (Raphael), 1900-1959
Lemkin, Rafał, 1900-1959
LocatedSweden United States
Birth date1900-06-24
Death date1959-08-28
Place of birthPoland
Field of activityWorld War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland Genocide--Law and legislation
Profession or occupationLawyers College teachers
Found inMartin, J.J. The man who invented "genocide", 1984: CIP title page (Raphael Lemkin)
LC data base, 3/22/84 (hdg.: Lemkin, Raphael, 1900-1959)
Kodeks karny r. 1932, 1932: title page (D-ra R. Lemkina, podprokuratora S.O., ref. S.G. Kom. Kodyfikacyjnej)
NUCMC data from American Jewish Archives for His Papers, 1942-1949 (Lemkin, Raphael, 1901-1959; Polish lawyer and lecturer; Resistence fighter in Poland during World War II; fled to Sweden; worked to have genocide declared a crime; b. June 24, 1901, near Bezwodene, Poland, one of three sons of Joseph and Bella (Pomerantz) Lemkin; after World War II came to U.S.)
Wikipedia, March 15, 2024 (Raphael Lemkin (June 24, 1900 - Aug. 28, 1959) was a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent who is known for coining the term genocide and campaigning to establish the Genocide Convention)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Lemkin>
LC man. auth. cd. (hdg. Lemkin, Raphael, 1900-1959; earlier form of name: Lemkin, Rafał)
Associated languagepol eng