A "Sacred Mission" to Remember

Yesterday, over 2,000 people came together at Congregation Emanu-El for the Annual Gathering of Remembrance, New York’s largest Holocaust commemoration. It’s appropriate that in this weekend, Religion and Ethics posted an interview (conducted at the Museum), linked here, with Father Patrick Desbois, whose work and research was the basis for the exhibition Holocaust by Bullets, which closed about a month ago.

Father Desbois has ensured that the millions of Jews who were murdered in Ukraine by the Nazis will not be forgotten: he has made it his life’s work to interview those who witnessed these horrific events, either as bystanders or collaborators, and locate the mass graves. He carries out this arduous task for several reasons: to learn the truth, to refute Holocaust deniers, and to find the bodies so that they may be paid respect and offered prayers and dignity in death.