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Testimony: Anna (born in 1931) was requisitioned to fill in the grave of Jews who were killed in the town of Postavy in November 1942. There were several thousand victims. She watched the whole day of shooting and was marked for life by it. As she was fil...

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Testimony: Nikolai D. “My Jewish neighbors, the Ginsburgs, were taken and brought to the police station. The next morning, I saw their bodies piled carelessly in the Jewish cemetery.” During 15 days of research in the Ukraine, a Yahad – ...

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Testimony: Vera R. “It was poverty that motivated the local women to go to the place of the round-up of the Jews and ask the Germans for a scarf, a skirt.” During 15 days of research in the Ukraine, a Yahad – In Unum team investigated in...

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Testimony: Jerzy P. “After the clashes in 1939, the Jews who were hiding in the bushes left to welcome the Germans, but they were taken and shot in the forest.” During 15 days of research in Poland, a Yahad – In Unum team investigated in...

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Testimony: Czeslaw F. “The Jews were forced to work hard. In winter, every day, several people died from exhaustion, severe cold and disease.” During 15 days of research in Poland, a Yahad – In Unum team investigated in 28 towns and vill...

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Testimony: Elizaveta M. “My grandfather enabled a whole family to cross the Dniester at night; my mother prepared cheese and milk for the Jewish children.” BASIC INFO: Yahad led a sixth research trip to Moldova in the region of Balti and on th...

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In the Holocaust by Bullets, Father Patrick Desbois documented for the first time the murder of 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine during World War II, based on wartime documents, interviews with locals, and the application of modern forensic practices on long-h...

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Patrick Desbois and Lara Logan at during their conference at the History Colorado Center. Father Patrick Desbois with Todd Hennessy of the Colorado Holocaust Educators, Lorn Maltenfort, Executive Director of Temple Sinai, Lary Jacobson, President of ...

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The Lantos Foundation established the Lantos Human Rights Prize in 2009 to honor and bring attention to heroes of the human rights movement. It is awarded annually to an individual or organization that best exemplifies the Foundation’s mission, name...

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Yahad – In Unum was to open its Action Yazidis exhibition at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The exhibition was made possible by the strong support of the permanent mission of France to the United Nations and the patronage of representa...

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