1. Raphael Lemkin was a polish lawyer who coined the word "genocide" in 1944. The significance of that date is that I define genocide as a deliberate attack on a person or persons based on a distinctive trait such as religion, beliefs, political views or physical characteristics. Lemkin's definition focuses on mass killings of people in a nation that is planned and not directly meant to eradicate an entire nation.
2. Although the term "holocaust" is usually related to the event where mass killings of Jews took place, it can still be applied to any type of event where a common group of people are punished for unpreventable circumstances. The holocaust stood for a time where unjustified crimes occurred without any type of interference from outside nations. The same term can be applied to events that occur today. The holocaust brought awareness to the cruelty of man towards itself. It also made citizens from every nation appreciate their quality of life in relation to others. This event also made it possible for other nations to create laws to intervene and send aid to other countries if it is needed.
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