{"id":50216,"date":"2018-01-23T16:22:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=50216"},"modified":"2018-01-23T16:22:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:22:44","slug":"holocaust-yazidi-genocide-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/holocaust-yazidi-genocide-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Past and Present at NAU: Holocaust and Yazidi genocide lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday, Northern Arizona University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/martin-springer\/\">Martin-Springer Institute<\/a> will host\u00a0author\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/patrickdesbois.com\/\">Father Patrick Desbois<\/a>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>who will present on<em>\u00a0<\/em>\u201cPast and Present: Holocaust Memories and Yazidi Genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFather Patrick Desbois embodies some of the core values of the Martin-Springer Institute: actively remembering the Holocaust past and raising awareness of today\u2019s genocidal assault on the Yazidi religious community in Iraq,\u201d said <strong>Bj\u00f6rn Krondorfer<\/strong>, director of the Martin-Springer Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Desbois is a French Roman Catholic priest, consultant to the Vatican and head of the Commission for Relations with Judaism\u00a0in France. He is the\u00a0founder of the\u00a0Yahad-In Unum, an organization dedicated to locating mass grave sites of Jewish victims of the Nazi mobile-killing units in the former Soviet Union. He received the\u00a0L\u00e9gion d&#8217;honneur, France&#8217;s highest honor, for his work documenting the Holocaust.\u00a0In 1978, he worked as a math teacher for the French government in Africa. Desbois later worked for Mother Teresa in Calcutta, where he helped set up homes for the dying. His 2008 book, \u201cThe Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest&#8217;s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews (Palgrave Mcmillian),\u201d won the National Jewish Book Award.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture will take place at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 in Prochnow Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>Prochnow Auditorium (Bldg. 3A) is located on Knoles Drive on the NAU Flagstaff campus. Tickets are $10 for the public and free for NAU and Coconino Community College staff and students. Tickets can be purchased by calling (928) 523-5661 or visiting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/cto\">nau.edu\/cto<\/a>.\u00a0Event parking passes can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/parking-shuttle-services\/\">nau.edu\/parking<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/holocaust-yazidi-genocide-lecture\/\">In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday, Northern Arizona University\u2019s Martin-Springer Institute will host\u00a0author\u00a0Father Patrick Desbois,\u00a0who will present on\u00a0\u201cPast and Present: Holocaust Memories and Yazidi Genocide.\u201d \u201cFather Patrick Desbois embodies some of the core values of the Martin-Springer Institute: actively remembering the Holocaust past and raising awareness of today\u2019s genocidal assault on the&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":50217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}