Patrick Desbois
Father Patrick Desbois has devoted his life to researching the Holocaust, fighting antisemitism, and furthering relations between Catholics and Jews.
Founder of Yahad - In Unum
Father 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-Ukraine border.
In 2004, he began to research the story of the Jews, Roma and other victims murdered in Eastern Europe during WWII by the Nazi mobile killing units, the Einsatzgruppen.
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Patrick Desbois Founder & President of Yahad - In Unum
Professor
Father Desbois is a Professor at Georgetown University, in the faculty of the Center for Jewish Civilization. He also served as director of the Episcopal Committee for Catholic-Judeo Relations from 1999 until 2016, under the auspices of the French Conference of Bishops.
Awards
His work through Yahad - In Unum has been recognized through numerous awards and public regards/compliments in France and throughout the world. Father Desbois is the author of “The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews” (2007) and Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for “In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets” (2019). He also published “The Terrorist Factory: ISIS, the Yazidi Genocide and Exporting Terror” (2016), based on his investigation of the Yazidi genocide in Iraq.
Professor
Father Desbois is a Professor at Georgetown University, in the faculty of the Center for Jewish Civilization. He also served as director of the Episcopal Committee for Catholic-Judeo Relations from 1999 until 2016, under the auspices of the French Conference of Bishops.
Awards
His work through Yahad - In Unum has been recognized through numerous awards and public regards/compliments in France and throughout the world. Father Desbois is the author of “The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews” (2007) and Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for “In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets” (2019). He also published “The Terrorist Factory: ISIS, the Yazidi Genocide and Exporting Terror” (2016), based on his investigation of the Yazidi genocide in Iraq.
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His publications
THE HOLOCAUST BY BULLETS
Summary:
Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine in WWII. Using innovative methodology, interviews, and ballistic evidence, he has determined the location of many mass gravesites with the goal of providing proper burials for the victims of the forgotten Ukrainian Holocaust.
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IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
Summary:
In his National Jewish Book Award–winning book, Father Patrick Desbois documented for the first time the murder of 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine during World War II. Nearly a decade of further work by his team, drawing on interviews with neighbors of the Jews, wartime records, and the application of modern forensic practices to long-hidden grave sites.
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THE TERRORIST FACTORY
Summary:
A riveting, behind-the-scenes look of the Yazidi genocide and the terrorist threat it holds for the West, based on the investigation by Father Patrick Desbois, Costel Nastasie, and their team at Yahad–In Unum, as first shown on 60 Minutes. With testimony drawn from more than 200 interviews with Yazidi survivors recorded during 11 investigative trips to refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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