ABSTRACT
Baron Wright has fallen into oblivion, unlike the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1948. In the sphere of law, it appears that the subsequent generations of Polish jurists were molded by two lawyers: Tadeusz Cyprian and Jerzy Sawicki. The Convention and its originator only attracted interest in democratic Poland, but this shift in perspective has been very slow ever since. Baron Wright has fallen into oblivion, unlike the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1948. In the sphere of law, it appears that the subsequent generations of Polish jurists were molded by two lawyers: Tadeusz Cyprian and Jerzy Sawicki. Rafal Lemkin and the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the Polish experience of occupation by National-Socialist Germany.
