Genocide in Night Genocide: the deliberate and systematic extermination of an ethnic or national group. The crime against humanity, that is genocide, has plagued the world for thousands of years. Although there have been many genocides since the beginning of time, the word "genocide" was first used in 1944. Polish Jewish scholar Rachael Lampkin coined the term first. The term genocide derives from the Latin (genos=race, cide=killing) and means literally the killing or murder of an entire tribe or people. The most prolific genocide to date is the Holocaust. The Nazi Genocide of the Jewish people lasted from 1933-1945. The book Night is based on an account of a Jewish boy, being dehumanized by the holocaust. All genocides throughout history have ended up with mass murders of a civilian race. Genocide is not a new 20th century phenomenon. Not all known insta....

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