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The Hidden Holocaust

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Father Patrick Desbois is a distinguished author, university professor, historian, forensic detective, and world-renowned human-rights activist. He has dedicated his life to fighting the bigotry that fuels the disease of genocide and bridging the divide between faiths. His ongoing work brings closure to the victims and survivors of genocide and calls for legal justice for the perpetrators.

He is the founder of Yahad-In Unum (“Together In One” in Hebrew and Latin), a non-profit organization dedicated to discovering genocidal practices wherever they are found around the world, providing documented proof of crimes against humanity, and a leading voice of protest on behalf of all past and present victims of mass murder.

Yahad-In Unum‘s original charter was documenting the evidence of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, known as the “Holocaust by Bullets.” For nearly two decades, Yahad-In Unum pioneered the application of modern forensic research to the study of genocide. Through this developed methodology, they have uncovered the location of more than 2,900 killing sites and documented more than 7,000 witness testimonies to the war crimes of the Einsatzgruppen (Nazi Death Squads). 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, released in early 2018, is titled [In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets.](https://www.amazon.com/Broad-Daylight-Procedures-Holocaust-Bullets/dp/1628728574 "In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets.")

Today, Father Desbois’ work is far from over while Yahad-In Unum has vigorously expanded its scope of anti-genocide vigilance. He has spent the last several years with his Yahad In-Unum team gathering testimony from survivors of the Yazidi massacres in Northern Iraq at the hands of ISIS. The work has resulted in hundreds of hours of eyewitness accounts of this modern day genocide and reveals the tactics and strategies ISIS utilizes to abuse and sexually enslave Yazidi women and turn the boys into brainwashed soldiers and terrorists. While the organization continues to collect evidence of the Yazidi Genocide, they have also established skill advancement centers in refugee camps to help former captives transition back into society. This research is covered in his recent book, [The Terrorist Factory: ISIS, the Yazidi Genocide, and Exporting Terror.](https://www.amazon.com/Terrorist-Factory-Yazidi-Genocide-Exporting/dp/1628729465 "The Terrorist Factory: ISIS, the Yazidi Genocide, and Exporting Terror.")

Speech Descriptions

There is no genocide without the neighbors.
Having interviewed 8000 neighbors of shootings of Jews, Romas, Desbois discovered that a minority of Neighbors are helping the victims; a minority are denouncing, stealing, or killing the Jews; and the majority doesn't care.
He investigates how to teach Holocaust today to non-Jews.

Hate propaganda.
During Holocaust, in every village or city where Jews were living, hate propaganda was strongly supported before the crimes. Today, with modern social media, ate propaganda spreads quickly and makes crowds or individuals participate in hate crimes. Suddenly, 'others' are the Jews and the foreigners, who become possible victims to discrimination and attack. Desbois details how to train young generations against hate speeches and propaganda, as modern societies seem very vulnerable to hate propaganda. There is no genocide without propaganda, and propaganda attracts many people because it prevents them from thinking.

Violence against Jewish women and girls in Holocaust by bullets
During Holocaust by bullets, many girls and women were humiliated, raped, and sex slaves. Their story stays silent very frequently, and that's the same in actual mass crimes. Desbois talks on how to teach the violence committed against girls and women in the Holocaust outside of the camps, how to give them back dignity and justice, and why this obliteration of the offenses against Jewish women in the Holocaust by bullets and in actual mass crimes.

Father Patrick Desbois

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The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews

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In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

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The Terrorist Factory: ISIS, the Yazidi Genocide, and Exporting Terror

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Father Patrick Desbois, founder of the international human rights organization Yahad-In Unum, is a prolific author, distinguished Professor at Georgetown University, historian, forensic detective, and world-renowned human-rights activist. He has committed himself to a life-long effort to fight the disease of Genocide and bring solace to its victims. 

For more than 15 years, Yahad-In Unum (“Together In One”), has worked tirelessly to collect testimonies of eyewitnesses, and identify and document sites of mass crimes committed against European Jews and Roma by the Nazis and their collaborators during the so-called “Holocaust by Bullets.” Their meticulous forensic study has led to the identification of nearly 2,900 execution sites while interviewing more than 7,000 eyewitnesses on the crimes committed by the Nazi death squads. Many of those interviewed have never before spoken of the massacres. Many of the sites have never before been documented, and many remain unmarked even today. 

While Father Desbois and his team search for the last unmarked grave, their mission has evolved to encompass the threat of modern-day genocide, group hatred, and anti-Semitism. Yahad-In Unum has taken their findings and built a system to inform the global public of the blueprint of genocide, revealing chilling parallels between the Nazi atrocities and those committed today.

Since 2015, the organization has been vigorously expanding its scope of anti-genocide vigilance. Father Desbois and Yahad-In Unum applied their forensic research processes to help document and reveal the evil leaders behind the Yazidi Genocide of 2014 in Northern Iraq. Their work in Iraq has expanded to offer Yazidi refugees a pathway back to society with mental health programs, schooling, and various aid packages. 

Father Desbois’ and Yahad-In Unum’s findings have unveiled the dark mechanisms of mass hate crimes and given voice to the victims. They have revealed how acts of genocide are linked together by a legacy of violence and hatred that reaches across cultures and throughout time, which is why, today, Father Desbois’ underlying message to us all is as urgent as it is profound: Resist Genocide in Our Time.