The Holocaust by Bullets
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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…
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In deeply personal terms, Father Desbois describes how his curiosity about his grandfather’s incarceration in Ukraine led him to study the atrocities committed there against the Jews. The book is written in an almost conversational style, creating a sense of intimacy between Father Desbois and the reader. Desbois is able to persuade those who witnessed atrocities to open up and confess what they have seen and what they remember. Together with a team of ballistic experts, interpreters, historians, and archaeologists, he identified numerous sites of mass graves. Desbois, who popularized the term “The Holocaust by Bullets,” has been instrumental in…
From Jeffrey's list on the Holocaust in Ukraine.
How and why did a French Jesuit priest become engaged in the mammoth task of researching and documenting the very gruesome and unimaginable details of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. Many do not realize that the Nazi strategies of classification, symbolization, discrimination, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, persecution, and extermination (Stanton’s stages of genocide) of the Jews in western Europe were different from those of the eastern European countries. It was Father Desbois who coined the term “Holocaust by Bullets” to describe the events in 10 countries (today as): Estonia, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine. Testimonies…
From Ettie's list on the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.
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