Fr Patrick Desbois is described as “a human bridge between the modern Jewish world and the Catholic Church and a major conduit through which the Holocaust would be remembered”.

Father Patrick Desbois has become one of the world's foremost chroniclers of what the French call the Shoah par Balles - the Holocaust of bullets. Though neither Jewish nor Ukrainian, he spends half his year combing the poverty-stricken landscape of Ukraine to document the annihilation of tens of thousands of Jews at the hands of traveling bands of Nazis called the Einsatzgruppen.

He has been canonized by Haaretz (!) which calls him “Patrick the Saint”

The priest, who has devoted his clerical life to fighting anti-Semitism, is uncovering, village by village, unmarked mass graves from the Holocaust era. Here the Jews were shot, one by one, mother in front of child, child in front of father.

The "Holocaust of bullets" was every bit as brutal as the extermination of Jews by gas chamber, starvation, and other means at Auschwitz and elsewhere in Europe. Yet the depth and details of the tragedy in Ukraine have only recently surfaced.

His patient work has produced a large quantity of valuable information.

Early in his career as a priest, he was appointed by the Cardinal of Lyon to aid the church's liaison to the Jewish community. Desbois was already studying Judaism and began to learn Hebrew.

To this day, he helps organize conferences between Catholics and Jews, and leads Holocaust study tours for young Catholics and other students. On one of those trips in the late 1990s, he stopped at the site of his grandfather's prison camp. A memorial there was all but destroyed.

Over the years, as he worked to repair the marker, he kept asking about "the others." The mayor of the village showed him where the camp's Soviet prisoners were buried. "I said, 'OK, [and] where is the mass grave of the Jews?' " Desbois recalls. "He told me, 'I don't know. I don't know. We never found it.' And I said, 'How could it be that more than 10,000 Jews were killed in the village ... and you don't know?'

This enormous chapter in the nightmare story of the Holocaust is too little known. A priest of my acquaintance chanced to read about it a few years ago. He had never heard about the mass shootings before and was shocked. This was at that time in the current ‘intifada’ when Palestinian murderers were routinely shooting Jews as they drove past. My priest acquaintance is no friend of Israel, but he immediately saw the connection. “The same thing is still going on today”, he said, sadly. “Only it’s the Palestinians who are shooting the Jews.”

In the Ukraine, “the Jews were shot, one by one, mother in front of child, child in front of father.”

And here is a reminder of a similar more recent incident.

After spraying the station wagen with bullets, the Palestinian terrorists walked up to the 4 terrified little girls and shot each one of them twice in the head, police said. The 8-month-old pregnant mother was shot in her belly at point blank range as she tried to cover her children

The victims of the attack were identified as Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters Hila (11), Hadar (9), Roni (7) and Merav (2)

Palestinians became the new Nazi Einsatzgruppen.