Catholic priest unearths mass graves of the Holocaust

A striking story from the Tribune – what happened in the Holocaust was largely hidden in Eastern Europe after the War.  I remember speaking to Russian Jews who were taught in school about Nazi atrocities but not told they were directed at any group in particular.  But ignorance, or concealment, of the Holocaust was not limited to Eastern Europe.

 

The priest grew up in this article and learned about what really happened as a result of a comment from his grandfather (who was made a slave by the Nazis) who said ““for others it was worse”.  That aside led the priest to read and find out what happened.

 

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Written by Shlomo Kapustin    

Tuesday, 12 October 2010 

 

TORONTO – Father Patrick Desbois doesn’t look the part of a Holocaust activist.

 

Short, middle-aged and non-descript, the Frenchman would seem more at home strolling the roads of a neighbourhood parish or grasping a lectern. And then there’s the white clerical collar, proof positive that he is indeed a man of the cloth.

 

So his opening words at a lecture last week were no surprise: “What’s a Catholic priest doing in the killing fields of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Poland?”

 

Desbois, author of The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews, spoke to a crowd of about 1,000 at Beth Tzedec Congregation. The event was presented by the synagogue and by the Holocaust Education Committee of the Christian Jewish Dialogue of Toronto, with the support of International Christian Embassy Jerusalem and Speakers Action Group.

 

 

 

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