The Genocide Convention or. as it is formally known. the International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. was drafted in response to the Holocaust of World War IIthe attempted wholesale extermination of an entire ethnic groupEuropean Jewry. It was negotiated at the United Nations in 194748 and signed by the United States on December 11. 1948. The United States was a leading advocate of the treaty. The word genocide was developed in 1944 by a noted international jurist. Raphael Lemkin. Lemkin was a Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States in 1941 and subsequently served as an adviser to Robert Jackson. the U.S. Prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crime trials. Fortynine members of Raphael Lemkins family were victims of Nazi genocide.
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