The Holocaust by Bullets, Father Patrick Desbois
The Holocaust by Bullets, Father Patrick Desbois
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The Holocaust by Bullets
A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews

Author: Father Patrick Desbois, Paul A. Shapiro

Narrator: Eric Jason Martin

Unabridged: 6 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/21/2023

Synopsis

The poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews

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.

Compiling new archival material and many eye-witness accounts, Desbois has put together the first definitive account of one of World War II's bloodiest chapters. Published with the support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

"[T]his modest Roman Catholic priest from Paris, without using much more than his calm voice and Roman collar, has shattered the silence surrounding a largely untold chapter of the Holocaust." —The Chicago Tribune

About Father Patrick Desbois

Father Patrick Desbois is secretary to the French Conference of Bishops for relations with Judaism, advisor to the Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon, and advisor to the Vatican on the Jewish religion. Grandson of a deportee to the Rawa Ruska camp, he has set out to investigate the mass murder of Eastern European Jews by the Nazis during the Second World War. He is the winner of the B'nai B'rith International Award for Outstanding Contribution to Relations with the Jewish People. He lives in Paris, France.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on May 30, 2021

Yahad in Unum means 'together' in Hebrew and in Latin; it is a Jewish and Roman Catholic body investigating the Nazi murder of the Jews, especially the massacres in the former Soviet Union. Father Desbois is a French Catholic priest, though I'm pleased to say also connected with my alma mater George......more

Goodreads review by Todd on June 25, 2018

I've rewritten this review about 5 times. It's simply too horrific to go into great detail. I'm simply going to say this is one of the more difficult books I've read. I had to read it in small pieces. This was murder committed by the Nazis, for sure, but aided, abetted, and witnessed by the local po......more

Goodreads review by Helen on July 28, 2019

This is a chilling exposition of the results of work of a group that investigates the mass murder of Jews in Eastern Europe - the ex-Soviet republics of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania- by research in archives and also by traveling to rural areas of these countries......more

Goodreads review by Ana-Maria on April 07, 2019

This is a very simple and yet powerful book. Compiling a series of witness testimonies, it explains how hundreds of thousands of people were massacred in Eastern Europe while many others watched. The stories show the many faces of humanity when confronted with atrocities - some did everything just t......more

Goodreads review by Adam on April 12, 2019

An important book for anyone who knows anything about the Holocaust to read. Father Desbois is a remarkable man.......more

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