“Memory keepers” were in ancient the name of those who stored and handed down to descents family histories – the family memories, and therefore about themselves. So it is not by chance that the family and personal story of Father Patrick Desbois is called so. These memories are unfolding on the backdrop of Ukrainian peasants’ remembrances about mass murders of Jews during the German occupation, becoming as a part of the common web of cultural, national, and universal memory of the Holocaust.
Father Patrick Desbois. Memory keeper. In the wake of gory Holocaust. – K:. Dukh i Litera, 2011. – 336 p. – ISBN 978-966-378-214-0.
Reviews and articles:
- Vakhtang Kipiani. Interesting books: “In the wake of gory Holocaust” – TSN.ua.
- Zhanna Kovba. Holocaust through the eyes of a French Priest – Istorychna pravda.
- Olesia Bortniak. A Priest from France Investigates Nazi Crimes in Ukraine, Radio Svoboda.
Presentations:
- September 9 – October 3, 2011 – The Holocaust from Bullets. Jew execution in Ukraine in 1941-1944 exhibition was held in Kiev, where Father Patrick Desbois presented the Ukrainian translation of his book Porteur de mémoires: sur les traces de la Shoah par balles (Keeper of Memories. In the wake of gory Holocaust).
