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Renowned author and founder/president of the French organization “Yahad-In Unum,” Roman Catholic priest Father Patrick Desbois will become Chief Strategy Officer and Chair of the Academic Council at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (BYHMC). Dr. Andrej Umansky will become Deputy Head of the Academic Council. Fr. Patrick Debois will have use of assistance offices in Kyiv and Paris and will work in close cooperation with the Supervisory Board of BYHMC.
Photo: Courtesy, Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
Patrick Desbois is well known for his work on the mass shootings which took place in Ukraine and other countries in the region occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II. His work shaped the term “Holocaust by bullets.” In his first book, titled “
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By Sareta Ashraph, Senior Legal Consultant, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
This contribution by Sareta Ashraph is part of a blog post series to coincide with the launch of our Handbook: Pursuing Justice for Mass Atrocities: A Handbook for Victim Groups.
In April 1977, Argentina’s Madres de la Plaza de Mayo held their first weekly march against the military commanders who had planned the systematic disappearance and murder of thousands. Four decades on, the mothers continued to march, their white headscarves a symbol of the relentless battle for justice for crimes against humanity committed a battle in which they have been largely successful, with more than 700 perpetrators sentenced.
Sunday Times that Dr Lwazi Lushaba told first-year University of Cape Town political science students in an online lecture that Hitler “committed no crime” because “all Hitler did was to do to the white people what white people had normally reserved for black people”.
This article, which came out the day before Holocaust Memorial Day or Yom HaShoah, created consternation on social media and was seen by some to be yet another antisemitic expression of Holocaust denial.
After reading this account, I listened to the online lecture, which has been posted on Facebook, and it became very clear that the broader context of Dr Lushaba’s lecture had been ignored in the
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