1st Edition

The Holocaust and Other Genocides An Introduction

Edited By Wichert ten Have, Barbara Boender Copyright 2012
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Since Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide after the destruction of the European Jewry during World War II, the United Nations signed the Genocide Convention in 1948. Though the Convention aimed at preventing genocide in the future, large-scale mass murder returned on all continents, in Cambodia and Rwanda as some of the most notorious cases. As demonstrated in this guidebook, the genocidal... Read more
Introduction, The Holocaust, 1933-1941-1945, The Armenian Genocide, 1915, The Cambodian Genocide, 1975-1979, The Rwandan Genocide, 1994, Crisis and Genocide in Yugoslavia, 1985-1995, The Crime of Genocide and International Law, References, About the Authors

Biography

During the research, the authors – Eveline Buchheim, Martijn Eickhoff, Jeroen Kemperman, Remco Raben, Peter Romijn and Stephanie Welvaart – were all affiliated with the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.