Pope Francis sent a blessing and a message of encouragement and “spiritual closeness” to the “Yahad-In Unum worldwide association, which unites Catholics and Jews at the service of the same cause.” “Yahad-In Unum is the principal Association tha...
Continue ReadingUNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and the Founder and President of Yahad-In Unum(link is external), Father Patrick Desbois, have signed a partnership agreement to strengthen cooperation between the two organizations in the field of Holocaust and geno...
Continue ReadingTestimony: In Nikolskoïe, we interviewed Viktor, born in 1931. The psychiatric hospital, Katchenko, was located in the village and employed the majority of the local population. A group of medical personnel also lived in the hospital’s enclosure. Sever...
Continue ReadingOnto the crying ground In August, I have been invited to accompany a Yahad – In Unum research team that will be investigating the area around Vinnitsia in Ukraine. It will be the first time I have seen Yahad’s team in acti...
Continue ReadingTestimony: Rifat S. (born in 1932) “My family was large. My father had four wives. When the war started, I remember the arrival of the Germans and Bulgarians. The Germans went into the village to pick out pretty girls and then came at night to take ...
Continue ReadingTestimony: “In Novosselytsia, where more than 10,000 Jews lived before the war, the Yahad-In Unum team succeeded in interviewing the last Jewish survivor of the war. Mendel was born in 1926.His whole family was killed in the camps during the deporta...
Continue ReadingTestimony: “Franczysek (born in 1928) saw the Germans arriving. He was forced to go with them into the forest where he became an eyewitness to the massacre of the Jews: “The Germans saw the shelter and they threw a grenade in it. Rouhlia (14 y...
Continue ReadingTestimony: “Contact information obtained from official sources led us to Feiga – a Jewish survivor who spent almost three years in the Kaunas ghetto. Her remarkable interview provides a deep insight into life on the other side of the fence. Th...
Continue ReadingTestimony: Ivan P. born in 1917. (A Gagauz man) “In my village, the mayor was Romanian. He was a very mean and cruel man who hit people for the smallest reason. At the beginning of the war, a Jewish family was terrorized by the police chief. The gir...
Continue ReadingTestimony: “In Gargždai, Gene, born in 1928, went to bring food to the women and Jewish children detained in a barn. She remembered that her father was requisitioned to transport the women and children to the execution site. They made several round...
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