A witness leads Father Desbois and the Yahad–In Unum research team to an execution In Brief
A French priest was honoured for two decades of researching and telling the story of current and former genocides.
Fr Patrick Desbois is the founder of Yahad-In Unum in Paris, which is dedicated identifying and commemorating the sites of mass executions in Eastern Europe during World War II.
He was awarded the 2017 Lantos Human Rights prize in the US for uncovering lost stories of those killed in the Holocaust and placed in mass, unmarked graves, and for collecting evidence of the genocide of the Yezidis – a Kurdish religious minority in Iraq – by the so-called Islamic State.