WHAT IS GENOCIDE?
That year, Raphael Lemkin introduced the term “genocide” to give the crime a name. Lemkin was a Polish-Jewish legal scholar who had fled Nazi-occupied Poland and arrived in the United States in 1941. Photo: Raphael Lemkin prepares for …
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