Dr. Raphael Lemkin
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Internationally acclaimed as the man who coined the term 'genocide', Raphael Lemkin was born to Jewish parents in Eastern Poland in It is ironic that it was not the persecution of his own people which led Lemkin to not only invent the phrase but to dedicate his life to fighting its reality. This struggle did not start, as might be expected, after the atrocities of the Second World War but some years before they had even begun.
Raphael Lemkin was educated at home together with his two brothers. He studied philology at the University of Lwów before deciding on a career in law. He gained a doctorate from the University of Heidelburg in Germany and in began teaching at Tachkimoni College in Warsaw. He became a public prosecutor and for the next five years represented Poland at conferences all over the world. A prominent international figure Dr Lemkin also served on the on the Polish Law Codification Committee and helped draft the criminal code of a newly independent Poland.
In Dr Lemkin was deeply disturbed by the massacre of Christian Assyrians by Iraqis
Raphael Lemkin, Padre De La Convención Sobre Genocidio
Tradicionalmente se ha confundido el genocidio con las masacres, las matanzas colectivas, los homicidios múltiples y las campañas de exterminio, comportamientos que tienen profundas raíces en la historia de la humanidad; bastaría recordar solamente la destrucción de los indios de América, la mayor catástrofe engendrada por el hombre. Sin embargo y sin dejar de reconocer que en épocas pretéritas el exterminio y persecución de grupos humanos se realizó obedeciendo a razones políticas, religiosas, raciales, económicas o culturales, el horror y las atrocidades cometidas por los nazis en la Segunda Guerra Mundial despertaron en la conciencia universal la necesidad de crear instrumentos jurídicos que permitieran el castigo de los responsables por la destrucción de grupos raciales, religiosos, políticos y de otro orden, conductas que estuvieron presentes durante este período triste de la humanidad.
El horror de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y las conductas inhumanas frente al mismo hombre pusieron en evidencia hasta dónde podía llegar el hombre en sus pretensiones y la posibilidad del aniquilamiento total de la especie humana. Era ne
Raphael Lemkin, el hombre que inventó la palabra "genocidio"
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- Autor, Irene Hernández Velasco
- Título del autor, Especial para BBC News Mundo
Winston Churchill lo llamó en "el crimen sin nombre".
Y es que no existía un término, una palabra, para expresar la gigantesca y enorme barbarie que los nazis cometieron contra el pueblo judío, que según los cálculos se saldó con el asesinato de seis millones de hombres, mujeres y niños.
Dos de cada tres judíos que se contaban en Europa antes de la II Guerra Mundial fueron exterminados.
Sólo en agosto, septiembre y octubre de , los nazis perpetraron cada mes alrededor de medio millón de asesinatos de judíos, es decir, mataron cada día a , según un estudio publicado liderado por Lewi Stone, profesor de Matemáticas en la Universidad de Tel Aviv.
Sin embargo, no había un vocablo con el que denominar a esa matanza contra un colectivo realizada de manera sistemática e industrial, algo desconocido hasta entonces.
"Ocurrió algo sin precedentes, aterrador", en palabras del historiador israelí y experto en estudios sobre el Holoca
Raphael Lemkin - Biography
Raphael Lemkin (June 24, – August 28, ) was a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent. He is best known for his work against genocide, a word he coined in from the root words genos (Greek for family, tribe, or race) and -cide (Latin for killing). He first used the word in print in Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation - Analysis of Government - Proposals for Redress (), while the Holocaust was occurring.
Early life and education
Lemkin was born Rafał Lemkin in the village of Bezwodne in Imperial Russia, now the Vawkavysk district of Belarus. Not much is known of Lemkin's early life. He grew up in a Jewish family and was one of three children born to Joseph and Bella (Pomerantz) Lemkin. His father was a farmer and his mother a highly intellectual woman who was a painter, linguist, and philosophy student with a large collection of books on literature and history. With his mother as an influence, Lemkin mastered ten languages by the age of 14, including French, Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian.
After graduating from a local trade school in Białystok he began the study of linguistics at the John Casimir University in Lviv, Ukraine
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