How Did Raphael Lemkin Made The Word Genocide

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Raphael Lemkin, a lawyer who lost his family due to the Holocaust, was really the one that made the term “genocide.” He made this word by combining both Greek and Latin root words--geno, coming from the Greek word “genos,” meaning a group, and “cide,” which is Latin for “killing,” so when put together the word literally means the deliberate killing of a race or group.

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