Holocaust by Bullets

While many of us have knowledge of the Death Camps and Work Camps of World War II where millions of Jews, Gypsies, Prisoners of War and others were brutally treated and murdered, the fate of nearly 1.5 million Soviet Jews at the hands of the Einsatzgruppen is not nearly as well known or documented.

Haunted by his grandfather Claudius's stories, Roman Catholic priest Father Patrick Debois began an effort to document the killing grounds of the men, women and children who died at the hands of murderous gun-toting men.  Debois wanted to make known the graves of the victims to provide some sanctity for their senseless deaths.

Using previously unreleased documents from the former Soviet Republics, metal detectors and survivor and witness testimonies, Desbois and his team were able to determine the final resting places of many.  This book is a haunting reminder of the mass destruction of lives, communities and a people.