Raphael Lemkin Collection undated, [1763]-2002 (bulk 1941-1951)

Celler, Emanuel, 1888-1981

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Emanuel Celler (May 6, 1888 – January 15, 1981) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he representred Brooklyn and Queens in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1923 to 1973, representing the 10th (1923-1945, 1963-1973), 15th (1945-1953), and 11th (1953-1963) congressional districts. He is the longest-serving member ever of the United States Congress from the state of New York. Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from Boys High School there before earning B.A....

Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814

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Charlemagne or Charles the Great (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was the King of the Franks, the Lombards, and the Emperor of the Romans. During the Early Middle Ages, he united the majority of western and central Europe. He was the first recognised emperor to rule from western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire around three centuries earlier. The expanded Frankish state that Charlemagne founded is called the Carolingian Empire. He was later canonised by Antipope Paschal III. Ch...

McDermott, Malcolm, b. 1885

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Khan, Muhammad Zafrulla, Sir, 1893-

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Raphael Lemkin, 1900-1959

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Raphael Lemkin was born in Bezwodene, Poland (located in imperial Russia at the time of Lemkin's birth and now near Volkovysk, Belarus), on June 24, in 1900, though some sources claim 1901 as his birth year. 1 Little is known of Lemkin's early life in Poland, a point mentioned in the only full-length biography written to date about Lemkin by Dr. James Martin, a Holocaust revisionist. 2 What is known is that Lemkin was one of three children born to Joseph and Bella (Pomerantz) Lemkin...

McMahon, Brien, 1903-1952

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U.S. senator from Connecticut. From the description of Papers of Brien McMahon, 1943-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449432 Biographical Note 1903, Oct. 6 Born, Norwalk, Conn. 1924 A.B., Fordham University, New York, N.Y. 1927 L...

Khmelnytskyi, Bohdan, circa 1594-1657

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Lemkin, Raphae͏̈l, 1900-1959

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Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), a Polish-born lawyer who coined the term "genocide", emigrated to the U.S. in 1941 and devoted his life to the crusade for the international adoption of the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. From the description of Raphael Lemkin papers, 1947-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122607891 From the guide to the Raphael Lemkin papers, 1947-1959, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division....

Tamerlane, 1336-1405

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United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...

Samuels, Gertrude

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Lie, Trygve, 1896-1968

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Bricker, John W. (John William), 1893-1986

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Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of John W. Bricker : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122528156 John Bricker (1893 - 1986), 54th Governor of Ohio from 1939 to 1945. From the guide to the John W. Bricker letter to John F. Ahlers, February 5, 1940, (Ohio University) ...

U.S. Committee for a U.N. Genocide Committee

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Mistral, Gabriela, 1889-1957

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Poet and Nobel Laureate (1945) Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga in Vicuña, Chile, in 1889. Mistral was an active member of the League of Nations and served as Chilean consul in Italy, Spain, and Portugal. She taught Spanish literature in the United States at Columbia University, Barnard College, and Vassar College, and at the University of Puerto Rico. Her works include Desolación, Ternura, and Tala . She died in 1957. From the guide to the Gabriela Mistral Papers 19...

Rosenthal, A. M. (Abraham Michael), 1922-

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck was the daughter of American missionary parents, and spent the first seventeen years of her life in China. Her third novel, The Good Earth, won the Pulitzer Prize, and a Nobel Prize for literature followed, citing The Good Earth as well as her biographies of her parents. Critical reception for her works has been mixed since these early successes. A prolific and optimistic author, most of her fiction is set in China, and she displays great affection for the place and her characters....