The United Nations paid tribute to a Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor who authored a landmark U.N. treaty, the Genocide Convention, to outlaw mass exterminations. Raphael Lemkin, born 100 years ago this month in Poland, died in 1959 at the age of 58.
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