Yahad-In Unum

The Association Yahad In Unum was founded following a joint initiative of Cardinal Lustiger, Cardinal Ricard and Israel Singer. Its purpose is to promote joint initiatives based on an ethics derived from the gift of law at Mount Sinai.

For several years, this Association has supported the search for all mass graves of Jewish victims shot by the Einsatzgruppen. It is a question of finding the places where the Jews were buried, but also the Ukrainian witnesses who witnessed the executions. Most were children or teenagers during the Second World War.

This research makes it possible to know, village after village, how the Jews were murdered. It also makes it possible to find the casings left by the Germans.

It is a question both of finding the history of the shootings but also of giving a burial to the hundreds of thousands of Jews buried in unknown pits. All research will be completed in Ukraine for the year 2010.

The research is mainly supported by the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah directed by Mrs. Simone Veil, then by David de Rothschild. They are also supported by the Claims Conference and the Targum Foundation.

The research of the Yahad-In Unum Association has had an important scientific impact thanks to the partnership established with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington. Indeed, the Washington museum has 16 million pages of personal archives on the commissions of inquiry carried out in each village in 1944. The study of these archives, and the changes with the researchers from the USHMM, makes it possible to compare the data collected between Ann e 2005 and Ann e 2006 with the findings of other documents less numerous in 1944. The similarity of t moignages is, without doubt, one of the strongest proofs of the v racit; of the noxious g.

The Yahad In Unum Association also supports joint initiatives between Catholics and Jews in Switzerland, Spain and the United States. These are meetings between Catholic and Jewish authorities to better face together the challenges of the contemporary world.

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YAHAD-IN UNUM, 151 rue du Chemin Vert, 75011 PARIS, FRANCE

Tel.: 33 (0)1.42.88.04.39 / Fax: 33 (0)1.42.88.63.16 / Contact: m.gonzalez@yahadinunum.org