WebApr 10, 2024 · While in Romania for a work trip, I retraced the Eastern European country’s Nazi past with Father Patrick Desbois, the president of Yahad-In Unum and the author of Holocaust by Bullets, who has dedicated the past 20 years to identifying mass graves of Jewish victims of the Einsatzgruppen (Nazi “mobile killing units”). During the trip he … WebFather Desbois is a Catholic priest and President of Yahad – In Unum, a global humanitarian organization he founded in 2004 dedicated to identifying and commemorating the sites of Jewish and Roma mass executions in Eastern Europe during World War II. He is the grandson of a WWII French prisoner held in the Rawa Ruska camp on the Poland ...
Father Patrick Desbois – Center for Jewish Civilization
WebJan 23, 2009 · Father Desbois was born 10 years after the end of World War II -- and yet, through his tireless actions, he exemplifies the "righteous gentile." The term is generally used to recognize non-Jews ... WebNov 24, 2009 · “Father Patrick Desbois is a French Catholic priest who, virtually single-handedly, has undertaken the task of excavating the history of previously undocumented Jewish victims of the Holocaust in the … beach boys singing barbara ann
YIU - Father Patrick Desbois - His story - Yahad-In Unum
WebFeb 1, 2009 · Father Desbois' work is also having an impact on efforts to preserve Holocaust sites. In December, the 26-nation International Task Force on the Holocaust called on European governments to... WebBorn in a south Burgundy village, Desbois grew up in a family split between “believers” and those whose tendencies, he writes, were “almost anticlerical.” WebOct 6, 2014 · “Father Desbois’ expert command of the forensic science that has revealed the truth about the extermination of Jews in the East is, without any doubt, his greatest contribution,” McManus adds. “His work will result in nothing less than revising the historiography of the Holocaust itself. beach boys papa ooh mau mau