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Lemkin Raphael [Rafał] DOLINKOAZWY WLASNE
1900-1959

Born in the family of Józef Lemkin and Bella nee Pomeranz. His father ran a rented [ wydzierżawione] farm. He had two brothers. In 1919 he graduated from a Bialystok [ Białymstoku] gymnasium. From 1919 to 1920 he did his military service.

He graduated from the Law Department at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv [Uniwersytetu Jana Kazimierza we Lwowie], traveled Across Europe from 1925 to 1926, where he attended lectures in social sciences inter alia in. HeidelberguBerlinie and the Sorbonie. In 1927  he defended his PhD thesis written under Juliusza Makarewicza. Afterwards he worked as a secretary for the Warsaw Court of Appeals. At that time he published two volumes in the Jidisze juridisze Bibljotek series. He served as Secretary of the Committee on Codification of the Laws of the Republic of Poland, which codified the penal codes of Poland. From 1927 he was appointed a member-correspondent of the Polish mission to the International Conference on criminal law. He participated in Polish mission to Congress on Criminal Law in Paris in 1931, Madrycie in 1933 and Kopenhadze in 1935. From 1930 or 1931 he was Deputy Prosecutor, first in the local court in Brzeżany (Tarnopolskie), and then in the local court in Warsaw. In 1934  he became a private solicitor in Warsaw, where he practiced at Kredytowa Str. 6.

At the beginning of 1940 he left the area occupied by the Soviets , and traveled through Litwę o Szwecji. In the spring of 1941 he moved to the USA, where he worked as an adviser for the Bureau of Economic Warfare, Foreign Economic Administration and the Department of War. Between 1942 and 1943 he wrote his most important book, The Axis Rule in Occupied Europe (published 1944), devoted to the notion of genocide. In the procesie norymberskim he became adviser to Roberta H. Jacksona, the main prosecutor z ramienia USA. From 1946 he was a consultant for the UN. He and Henri Donnendie de Vabres co-wrote the draft of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide signed on Dec 9, 948. (Dz. U. z 1952 r. Nr 2, poz. 9) [http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html] From 1948 to1951 he lectured in international law at the Uniwersytecie Yale.

In 1951 and 1952 he was nominated to the Pokojowej Nagrody Nobla. In 1950 he was awarded the Cuban Grand Cross of the Order of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes in 1950, and in 1955  the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 

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