The Holocaust by bullets, shooting in Ukraine - Shoah Memorial
Yahad-In Unum
The Yahad In Unum Association was founded following a joint initiative by Cardinal Lustiger, Cardinal Ricard and Israel Singer. Its aim is to promote joint initiatives based on an ethics stemming from the gift of the Law at Mount Sinai.
For several years, this Association has supported the search for all the common graves of Jewish victims shot by the Einsatzgruppen. It is about finding the places where the Jews were buried but also the Ukrainian witnesses who attended 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 allows to find the casings left by the Germans.
It is both to find the history of the shootings but also to give 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 by the Targum Foundation.
The research of the Yahad-In Unum Association has experienced an important scientific network thanks to the partnership established with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington. Indeed, the museum in Washington has 16 million pages of information archives on the investigation commissions carried out in each village in 1944. The study of these archives, and the changes with the researchers from the USHMM allow us to compare the testimonies collected between Year 2005 and Year 2006 with the results of others less in 1944. The similarity of the stings undoubtedly constitutes one of the strongest proofs of the v racit of the nocide.
The Yahad In Unum Association also supports joint initiatives between Catholics and Jews in Switzerland, Spain and the United States. It is about meetings between Catholic and Jewish authorities to better face together the challenges of the contemporary world.
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