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The Holocaust by bullets : a priest's journey to uncover the truth behind the murder of 1.5 million Jews / Patrick Desbois ; with a foreword by Paul A. Shapiro.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks JGSP DS 135 .U4 D4813 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Desbois, Patrick.
- Standardized Title:
- Porteur de mémoires. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Desbois, Patrick.
- Jews--Persecutions--Ukraine.
- Jews.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Ukraine--Ethnic relations.
- Ukraine.
- Ethnic relations.
- Jews--Persecutions.
- Genre:
- Erlebnisbericht.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 233 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Summary:
- 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 history's bloodiest chapters.--From publisher description.
- 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 brother's blood
- A burial place for the dead
- The mass graves
- An extermination in every village
- Operation 1005
- Busk
- He who saves a single life saves the whole world
- Everyday evil
- In memory of Dora.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Desbois, Patrick. Porteur de mémoires. English. Holocaust by bullets.
- ISBN:
- 9780230606173
- 0230606172
- OCLC:
- 181601132
- Online:
- Book review (H-Net)
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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