The genocide concept author Raphael Lemkin Street appeared in Lviv
Dec 23, 2024
Winston Churchill twice nominated Raphael Lemkin for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The term “genocide” proposed by Lemkin was first used at the Nuremberg Trials. And in 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide that he developed.
In 2015, his report “Soviet Genocide in Ukraine”, written in 1953 about the Holodomor, was classified as extremist in Russia.
Until now, not a single place name has been named in Ukraine in honor of Lviv University graduate Raphael Lemkin. Recently, Lemkin Street appeared in Lviv. It is symbolic that a rehabilitation center for people who survived captivity and torture is currently being built on the street of the genocide concept author.
