The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Mur

Description: The Holocaust by Bullets by Patrick Desbois, Father Patrick Desbois, Paul A. Shapiro In this heart-wrenching book, 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, with the goal of providing proper burials for the victims of the forgotten Ukrainian Holocaust. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In this heart-wrenching book, 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 historys bloodiest chapters.Published with the support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Notes The poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of 1.5 million Ukranian Jews. Author Biography 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. He is the President of the Yahad In Unum Association, an honoree of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for his outstanding contribution to the memory of Holocaust victims in Ukraine, and the winner of the Bnai Brith International Award for Outstanding Contribution to Relations with the Jewish People. He lives in Paris. PAUL A. SHAPIRO is the Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museums Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS UKRAINE, SPRING 2007 Origins A Path From Auschwitz to Jerusalem The Priest of Belzec From Cemetery to Cemetery A Team and its Ethic Discovering the Truth Accepting the Truth They Saw The Requisitions Establishing a Methodology Your Brothers Blood A burial Place for the Dead The Mass Graves An Extermination in Every Village Operation 1005 Bousk He Who Saves a Single Soul Saves the Whole World Everyday Evil In Memory of Dora Acknowledgements Maps Notes Index Review WINNER OF THE 2008 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD Part memoir, part prosecutorial brief, The Holocaust by Bullets tells a compelling story in which a priest unconnected by heritage or history is so moved by an injustice he sets out to right a daunting wrong ...One might think Holocaust history has been exhausted, but Desbois breaks real news about how an emerging democracy in the New Europe still hasnt emerged from World War II. We have witnessed a decade of forensic excavations documenting genocides in Guatemala, Bosnia and Rwanda, but only now are these same tools being used to find the murdered Jews of Ukraine, thanks in large part to Desbois.- The Miami Herald Using a diverse team consisting of a researcher, photographer, interpreter, and ballistics expert, Desbois endeavored to uncover these burial sites and the brutal stories behind them. He uses ample testimony from those who may have witnessed key parts of this brutal process, and he makes some surprising discoveries. The narrative flows because Desbois has such a passion for his subject; he writes simply and well, so that even readers with little initial understanding will learn a lot. The result is an outstanding contribution to Holocaust literature, uncovering new dimensions of the tragedy, and should be on the shelves of even the smallest library. Highly recommended. - Library Journal, starred review An important addition to studies of the Shoah, agonizing to read and utterly necessary. - Kirkus Reviews In Jewish tradition the greatest category of acts one can perform are those of loving kindness, including taking care of the sick, welcoming the stranger, and sheltering the needy. The most treasured of these acts is taking care of the dead because, unlike the others, it cannot be reciprocated. Jewish tradition posits that it is then that the individual most closely emulates Gods kindness to humans, which also cannot be reciprocated. Father Patrick Desbois has performed this act of loving kindness not for one person but for hundreds of thousands of people who were murdered in cold blood. He has done so despite the fact that many people would have preferred this story never to be uncovered and others doubted that it ever could be done. His contribution to history and to human memory, as chronicled in this important book, is immeasurable.- Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D. author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier In this very personal and affecting account of his gradual discovery of the events of the Holocaust in the Ukraine Patrick Desbois, a French priest, gives us a widened perspective of the extraordinarily complex manipulation of the local population by the Nazis, who forcibly requisitioned Ukrainian citizens of all ages to assist in the killings. In village after village, more than 60 years after the horrific events, the inhabitants, many of whom had been children at the time, came forward to bear witness. From the many interviews in the text, it is clear that the personal trauma of forced involvement in the mass executions has never diminished. And indeed, the stories of what they saw takes ones breath away. This is a significant addition to the history of the Holocaust that sheds new light on events in the Nazi occupied areas of the former USSR.- Lynn H. Nicholas, author of Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web and The Rape of Europa: Europes Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War Prompted by compassion and intellectual curiosity, Father Desbois revisited the graves of a million and a half Ukrainian Jews, who were murdered during the German occupation. Combining archival sources and ballistic evidence with the voices of Ukrainian eyewitnesses, Father Desbois delivers a complete, harrowing account of what happened. This book is a triumph of historical exploration, deeply moving and profoundly disturbing.- Nechama Tec, Holocaust Scholar, University of Connecticut in Stamford, and author of the National Jewish Book Award-winning: Resilience and Courage: Women, Men and the Holocaust and of Defiance: The Bielski Partisans Father Patrick Desbois gives a horrifying account of dimensions of the Holocaust until now undocumented. His Catholic faith, experiences of his own family, the support of the French bishops and the research capacities of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are enabling him to carry out a work of discovery, of healing and reconciliation. This book is a striking contribution to Christian-Jewish relations. We owe him a debt of enormous proportions.- Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. Archbishop of Chicago [Desbois] is a human bridge between the modern Jewish world and the Catholic Church and a major conduit through which the Holocaust will be remembered. - The Christian Science Monitor [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 when Nazis killed 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine from 1941 to 1944.- The Chicago Tribune Long Description In this heart-wrenching book, Father Patrick Desboisdocuments 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 hasdetermined 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 andmany eye-witness accounts, Desbois has put together the first definitive account of one of historys bloodiest chapters.Published with the support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Review Quote WINNER OF THE 2008 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD Description for Bookstore In this critically acclaimed, heart-wrenching memoir, Father Patrick Desbois tells the poignant story of how he found mass gravesites of Jews exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine during WWII--and set upon the moving journey to honor the victims with proper burials and bring their stories to life. He became interested in the Nazi shootings after hearing the reminiscences of his grandfather, a French POW held at the Rawa-Ruska forced labor camp during the war. Details ISBN0230617573 Author Paul A. Shapiro Short Title HOLOCAUST BY BULLETS Language English ISBN-10 0230617573 ISBN-13 9780230617575 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2009 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle A Priests Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews Country of Publication United Kingdom Place of Publication Basingstoke AU Release Date 2009-12-18 NZ Release Date 2009-12-18 UK Release Date 2009-12-18 Illustrations Illustrations Pages 272 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Publication Date 2009-12-18 DEWEY 940.531809477 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:23124564;

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