After the Holocaust, the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide meat together and coined the term "genocide." They stated that genocide is the act of attempting to destroy part or all of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group by:
a. Killing members of the group;
b. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
c. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
