Father Desbois Discusses Extensive Work Documenting the Secret Procedures of Genocide

Memory of the Past and the Battle for a Promising Future

(New York, NY) – World-renowned historian and human-rights activist Father Patrick Desbois will speak at The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research at 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY on Monday May 6, 2019, 7:00pm. Desbois will discuss the findings of his decade and a half-long investigation into the heinous genocidal Nazi death squads in Eastern Europe. He will reveal the system they applied to gain the complicity of local townspeople in the many killing fields of the “Holocaust by Bullets.” Fr. Desbois will also speak on the rapid growth of antisemitic rhetoric and organized violence throughout the world and offer his counsel to those seeking to resist it. Fr. Desbois will also be available to sign his latest books – “In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets” and “The Terrorist Factory: ISIS, the Yazidi Genocide, and Exporting Terror.”

Tickets are $15.00 for general admission and $10.00 for YIVO members & students. Reservations can be made online at yivo.org/Father-Desbois.

For any media inquiries please contact:

Alex Weiser
Director of Public Programs
(212) 294-6152

About YIVO

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is dedicated to the preservation and study of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide. For nearly a century, YIVO has pioneered new forms of Jewish scholarship, research, education, and cultural expression. Its public programs and exhibitions, as well as online and on-site courses, extend its global outreach and enable us to share our vast resources. The YIVO Archives contains more than 23 million unique items and YIVO’s Library has over 400,000 volumes—the single largest resource for such study in the world. www.yivo.org

About Father Patrick Desbois

Father Patrick Desbois is a French Roman Catholic priest who founded YIU to research and uncover genocidal practices around the world and to give a voice of protest on behalf of all past and present victims of mass murder. YIU was initially founded with the mission of locating the sites of mass graves of Jewish victims of the Nazi mobile-killing units in the former Soviet Union. His first book, “Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews,” is based on this work. His second book on this topic, “In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets,” was release in 2018. Most recently, he and his team at YIU have been gathering testimony from survivors of the Yazidi massacres in Northern Iraq at the hands of ISIS. This research is covered in his latest book, “The Terrorist Factory: ISIS, the Yazidi Genocide, and Exporting Terror.” More information at spellcom.com/desbois.

About Yahad-In Unum

Yahad-In Unum combines the Hebrew word Yahad which means “together”, with the Latin phrase In Unum, which means “in one.” Founded in 2004 by Father Patrick Desbois, the organization is dedicated to documenting the evidence of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and to work on the prevention of future genocides. Yahad-In Unum’s ongoing research on World War II crimes against Jews and Roma/Gypsy people in Eastern Europe has uncovered the location of more than 2,500 killing sites and documented more than 6,000 witness testimonies to these crimes.

Yahad-In Unum is not affiliated with any political party and does not advocate any economic or military action. Its mission is to discover the facts of genocidal practices wherever they are and provide a voice of protest on behalf of all victims of genocide and mass violence. www.yahadinunum.org