MCC’s Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Project has partnered with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, local colleges and community organizations to bring Father Patrick Desbois to Rochester to speak about his efforts to uncover the truth about the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.
During the 1930s and 1940s, 1.5 million people were murdered in the Ukraine and Belarus (Belorussia). Some regard it as the “Holocaust within the Holocaust.” Fr. Desbois traveled to the Ukraine seeking a memorial to pay homage to those that were murdered, but he found no monument, no formal account. Since 2001, he has devoted his life to confronting Holocaust denial and locating every grave and site at which Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.
Please join Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Project and our community partners for
The Holocaust By Bullets:
A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews
Tuesday, September 28
7 p.m.
Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Avenue
This program is free and open to the public.
MCC student leaders will join other area college students for an exclusive learning session with Fr. Desbois prior to his presentation. During the upcoming year, HGHRP events will offer unique opportunities to learn more about the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.
An event flyer is attached. For more information, please contact Brandilea Trescott, HGHRP president, at <
mailto:btrescott001@student.monroecc.edu> or visit
https://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/desbois.