Rafała Lemkina autobiografia

• Authors: Bogdan Grzeloński

Abstracts

EN

Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), a Polish-born jurist and Holocaust survior lead an extraordinary life of struggle – to educate the world about genocide and create mechanisms to punish perpetrators .Because of that his „Totally Unofficial. The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin” draws attention. While writing about the book Bogdan Grzeloński gives a spotlight to these issues and events that Lemkins is silent about. Based on the newest resarch and publications he presents in detail the beginnings of Lemkins University education. He explains why Lemkn resigned from the prosecutors office and became lawyer. He describes how Lemkin was consistently building his position among the lawyers in Europe. He presents new fact about how Lemkins managed to save himself from Holocaust and flee from two aggressors, German and Soviet, that invaded Poland. And how, thanks to his acqauitance with the prominent Swedish laywer Karl Schlyter Lemkin first go to Stockholm and later emigrated to the United States. Finally Bogdan Grzeloński gives an account of Lemkins involment in the establishment of the Nuerenberg Tribunal. He is of the opinion, that even if many facts were omitted from this work, it dosent diminish its signifance. Raphael Lemkin autobiography is still an extraordinary book.

Keywords

EN

Raphael Lemkin; autobiography; high education; Warsaw years; in Sweden; in United States of America; problem of genoicide; Roosevelt policy toward Jews; Nuremberg – unfinished project; convention; alone and poor

PL

Rafał Lemkin; auotobiografia; wykształcenie; warszawskie lata; w Szwecji; w Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki; problem ludobójstwa; polityka Roosevelta wobec Żydów; Norymbergia – niedokończony projekt; konwencja; samotny i biedny

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Themis Polska Nova
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 2(11)
• Pages: 33-49

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Bogdan Grzeloński

• Uniwersytet Humanistycznospołeczny SWPS

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tpn2016.2.02

Biblioteka Nauki

2204966