What you see before your eyes: documenting Raphael Lemkin's life by exploring his archival Papers, 1900–1959.

The article provides information about Raphael Lemkin through his archival collections. Lemkin is a pioneering scholar of Genocide Studies and self-proclaimed founder of the Genocide Convention. The first collection of documents about Lemkin reside at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of American Jewish Archives located at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio. The second collection was given to the American Jewish Historical Society. The third collection was donated to New York Public Library. Other collections were at the University of Alabama.