Summer public trip, seminars highlight 2012 agenda In addition to its ongoing research investigations, Yahad will continue to expand its educational outreach activities in 2012, including:  - Presentations on the Holocaust by bullets by Yahad team members in Europe, North America, Asia and Latin America; - Ongoing displays of the “Holocaust by Bullets” exhibit in European cities – the exhibit is currently traveling between cities in Ukraine and also is on display at Toulouse, France (see below); - An educational trip to Poland and Ukraine for members of the public in the late spring, to be offered in English; - Seminars for teachers and scholars and presentations to students. Research teams will continue their work through 15 investigation trips scheduled throughout the year. In addition to working toward the completion of investigations in regions of Ukraine and Belarus, teams will build on previous research begun in the past two years in Russia, Poland, Romania and Moldova. Further information will be published in upcoming issues of Yahad – In Unum News and posted under the Events section of Yahad’s web site.

Holocaust by Bullets exhibit in Toulouse, France An exhibit on the Holocaust by bullets , prepared with the Memorial of the Shoah, is open in Toulouse, France, through February 10. Organized by the region’s museum on the resistance and deportation, the exhibit recounts the fate of the victims of Nazi genocide killed by the Einsatzgruppen, the Waffen SS, the German police and their Eastern European collaborators. The exhibit features the work of Yahad in identifying the mass graves of victims and interviewing witnesses to the genocide.   For more information: Musée départemental de la résistance et de la déportation 52, allée des Demoiselles 31400 Toulouse, France www.musee-resistance31.fr Tel.: +33 (0)5 61 14 80 40

Recent Yahad field investigations (click highlighted links to read reports)
December 2010	Belarus	Grodno	May – June 2010	Ukraine	Dnepropetrovsk
December 2010	Ukraine	Tcherkassy	April – May, 2010	Belarus	Baranovitchi
December 2010	Ukraine	Dnepropetrovsk	March 2010/	Belarus	Baranovitchi
November 2010	Belarus	Grodno	January 2010	Ukraine	Podolia
November 2010	Russia	Bryansk	December 2009	Russia	Smolensk
August 2010	Ukraine	Vinnytsia	October 2009	Russia	Smolensk
July 2010	Poland	Lublin	August 2009	Belarus	Pinsk
June – July 2010	Ukraine	Dnepropetrovsk	May 2009	Ukraine	Ternopil

Article explores relationship between camp and village Yahad continues publishing occasional articles written by Yahad team members and others providing an in-depth treatment of various aspects of the Holocaust by bullets. This month’s article, written by Yahad team member, Marie Moutier, looks at a camp at Mikhaïlivka, Ukraine, established by the Nazis to hold Jewish prisoners forced to work on the DG IV highway, and the interaction between the camp and adjoining village. The article can be accessed under the Research Results/Historical Background section of the web site.

Australian student delegation visits Yahad Members of the Union of Australian Jewish Students listen to a presentation by team members on Yahad’s archival and field research work during a visit in December. The visit was part of the delegation’s five-week trip to meet with the world’s leading Holocaust organizations, which also included USHMM and Yad Vashem. Introduced to Yahad’s work as a result of Father Desbois’ presentations last summer in Australia, the group expressed interest in distributing Yahad’s educational toolkit on the Holocaust by bullet to universities and educators in Australia.

Collaboration and Jewish persecution in Hungary Yahad’s Thursdays at CERRESE series continues in January with a conference cosponsored with the College des Bernardins featuring German historian Patricia von Papen-Bodek. Joined by Father Desbois, Ms.von Papen-Bodek will discuss the contribution of anti-Semitism to the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, with a particular focus on Hungary, where 440,000 Jews were deported in a matter of months following the Nazi invasion in March 1944. Thursday, January 19, 2012, 8:00 p.m.

Meet Team Yahad Each month, we profile one of the dedicated team members who help make the work of Yahad – In Unum possible. Yahad continues to increase in size, accelerating its field research and expanding its outreach and educational activities. The growth has meant an accompanying expansion in the amount of information that must be managed and communicated as well as the equipment used by Yahad team members to perform the work. Keeping it all running smoothly is Fernando Sebastiao, Yahad’s I/T manager. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, trained as an engineer and fluent in Portuguese, French and English, Fernando has been part of the Yahad family since 2004. In addition to managing the information network and maintaining I/T applications, he maintains computers and peripheral equipment and advises team members on the information processing needs. He says he likes Yahad’s friendly, “family-like” work environment and feels proud to contribute to a team effort so important to humanity and the preservation of memory. “Growing up in Brazil, I didn’t have the same exposure to the history of World War II and the Holocaust,” he says, “and it has been a profound, and emotional, learning experience.

Upcoming public events París – two sessions of the seminar “Writing the history of the Holocaust” (in French and open to the public) will be held in January: on January 4 on oral histories and genocide, the research of Yahad – In – Unum, and January 18 on evidence and the convergence of sources of the Holocaust by bullets.   The sessions are from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the salle des Résistants at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris. Yahad contact: Marie Moutier: m.moutier@yahadinunum.org  París- Thursdays at CERRESE conference cosponsored with the College des Bernardins featuring German historian Patricia von Papen-Bodek, Thursday, January 19, 2012, 8:00 p.m. París- Father Desbois will interview historian Nicolas Werth about Soviet history before and during World War II as observed, and written about, by his journalist father, Alexander Werth, in February at “Thursdays at CERRESE” at Yahad, 114 Boulevard de Magenta 75010. Contact Johanna Lehr for more information: j.lehr@yahadinunum.org. París- conference featuring Cardinal Vingt-Trois and the Grand Rabbi of France Bernheim on “The 10 Commandments and Human Rights,” cosponsored with the association D.A.V.A.R. and the College des Bernardins, Monday, March 5 at 8:30 p.m. at the Collège des Bernardins, 20 rue de Poissy – 75005 Paris. Registration: dialogues2012@gmail.com or by calling +33 1 42 88 40 53   read more about daily Yahad activities on Yahadblog read recent press articles about Yahad-In Unum read past issues of Yahad-In Unum News send your comments about Yahad–In Unum News