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 ReadingOn Friday, April 28, Father Patrick Desbois received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from St. Francis College Brooklyn. Before the official ceremony, Father Desbois led an informal workshop for 50 students on the Holocaust by bullets and its conte...
Continue ReadingFor the first time in Spain, Yahad-In Unum’s “Roma Memory” exhibit, which presents the genocide of the Roma people through Yahad’s original research, is on display at the iconic Paula de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia. The exhibi...
Continue ReadingMore than 250 people came out to see Father Patrick Desbois’s speech at the opening of the “Holocaust by Bullets” exhibit in Milwaukee, hosted by the Milwaukee Jewish Federation! Learn more about the exhibit in Milwaukee through a profil...
Continue ReadingOn April 13, we had the pleasure of welcoming Ann Curry to our offices. Ann Curry is a recognized news journalist and also serves on the Board of Directors for American Friends of Yahad-In Unum. During her visit with our team, she shared her own experienc...
Continue ReadingThe Museo del Holocausto Guatemala, funded by Yahad-In Unum, launched the opening of the “Holocaust by Bullets” exhibit at the Training Center for Women in San Cristôbal in Totonicapán, Guatemala, where it will be on display until June 26. T...
Continue ReadingOn March 23, Father Desbois gave a lecture on the Holocaust by Bullets as a part of the Ethics Lecture Series organized by D. B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics and Leadership at Viterbo University in La Crosse, WI. The event gathered more than 650 people t...
Continue ReadingFrom March 22-23, Yahad-In Unum participated in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s [IHRA] conference on “As Mass Murder Began: Remembering and Identifying the Killing Sites of Summer-Fall 1941” in Vilnius, Lithuania. As p...
Continue ReadingFrom March 17-24, Yahad-In Unum led a group of 27 students, from ORT Daniel Mayer, a Jewish high school in Montreuil, France, on an educational trip to Poland to visit sites of Jewish memory. The trip was the culmination of months of preparation with the ...
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