General Information

Uniform Title

Porteur de mémoires.

Author/Creator

Desbois, Patrick

Language

English.

Published

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Physical Description

xx, 233 p., [19] p. of plates : col. ill, maps ; 25 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"In this book, Father Patrick Desbois tells the poignant story of his discovery of mass gravesites of Jews exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine during WWII and his journey to honor the victims with proper burials and to bring their stories to life."--Book jacket.

Subjects

Subject

Desbois, Patrick

Jews > Persecutions > Ukraine.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Ukraine > Personal narratives.

Ukraine > Ethnic relations.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Patrick Desbois ; with a foreword by Paul A. Shapiro.

Content

Foreword / Paul A. Shapiro -- Ukraine, Spring 2007 -- I. Origins -- II. A path -- III. From Auschwitz to Jerusalem -- IV. The priest of Belzec -- V. From cemetery to cemetery -- VI. A team and its ethic -- VII. Discovering the truth -- VIII. Accepting the truth -- IX. They saw -- X. The requisitions -- XI. Establishing a methodology -- XII. Your brother's blood -- XIII. A burial place for the dead -- XIV. The mass graves -- XV. An extermination in every village -- XVI. Operation 1005 -- XVII. Busk -- XVIII. He Who Saves a Single Life Saves the Whole World -- XIX. Everyday evil -- XX. In memory of Dora -- Yabad-In-Unum -- Photosection appears between pages 120 and 121.

ISBN

0230606172

9780230606173

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	940.53/1809477 22 DES		Reference	-

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