Before the gas chambers were up and running, Hitler's troops systematically killed millions by going into villages, rounding up citizens (mostly women, children, and the elderly, those who could not do slave labour), and shooting them to death, creating mass graves, many of which have not been identified. In my study during a class at UK and my own readings, this was clear, but the general populace's ideas of the Holocaust focus on the death camps. (If you've been reading this blog for awhile, you know that Holocaust and genocide studies is an area of interest for me.)
Enter Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest who interviewed over 800 people in the Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, scoured Soviet archives, and uncovered hundreds of mass graves, two-thirds of them previously unknown to scholars. The result is his book, Holocaust by Bullets. and an exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.
For more on his work, see:
Priest uncovers ‘Holocaust by Bullets’: Book includes details of previously unknown mass exterminations
I'm definitely interested in getting this book
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