Patrick Desbois

French priest · France · On the map · Religious Figures · Born 1955 · age 71

Patrick Desbois is a French Roman Catholic priest, former head of the Commission for Relations with Judaism of the French Bishops' Conference and consultant to the Vatican.

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2023Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyAward2010Prix Mémoire de la ShoahAward2008Knight of the Legion of HonourAward1955Born26 June 1955

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Hannah Rosenthal, U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, recognizes the work of Father Patrick Desbois, President of the Yahad-In Unum Association of France, with a Tribute of Appreciation certificate (12 May 2011)

Awards

Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany2023

Prix Mémoire de la Shoah2010

Knight of the Legion of Honour2008

Honorary Doctor of the Bar-Ilan University

Honorary Doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

About this person

He is the founder of the Yahad-In Unum, an organization dedicated to locating the sites of mass graves of Jewish victims of the Nazi mobile-killing units in the former Soviet Union. He received the Légion d'honneur, France's highest honor and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Germany's highest honor for his work with Yahad-In Unum documenting the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.

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France

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