The Greek Genocide: Forgotten no longer

Raphael Lemkin, the lawyer and scholar who coined the term "genocide" and initiated the Genocide Convention, was working on a multi-volume history of such massacres at the time he passed in 1959. He had planned five chapters on the Greeks - more than for any other people - in this unfinished work.

The Armenian Genocide has dominated the discussion about the massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire on its Christian populations. The genocide of the Ottoman Empire's Greek citizens has been regularly labeled a "forgotten genocide."

Enter the Greek-American version of Raphael Lemkin, George Mavropoulos. His parents were Pontic Greek refugees who escaped the genocide, and his grandfather perished at the age of 43, a victim of the massacre. After a 35-year career as an engineer for Commonwealth Edison's nuclear operations in Illinois, George retired and devoted his life...