Patrick Desbois

Hannah Rosenthal, U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, recognizes the work of Father Patrick Desbois, President of the Yahad-In Unum Association of France, with a Tribute of Appreciation certificate (12 May 2011)

Patrick Desbois (born 1955, in Chalon-sur-Saône) is a French Roman Catholic priest, former head of the Commission for Relations with Judaism of the French Bishops' Conference and consultant to the Vatican. He is the founder of the Yahad-In Unum, an organization dedicated to locating the sites of mass graves of Jewish victims of the Nazi mobile-killing units in the former Soviet Union.[1] He received the Légion d'honneur, France's highest honor and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Cross of Merit 1st Class), Germany's highest honor for his work with Yahad-In Unum documenting the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.[2] [3]

  1. ^ Logan, Lara (4 October 2015). "The Hidden Holocaust". 60 Minutes. CBS News. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Décret du 21 mars 2008 portant promotion et nomination". Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  3. ^ https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Berichte/Bekanntgabe-Ordensverleihung/2307-Verleihungen.html [bare URL]