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...divulge details. But when the priest returned a year later, the deputy mayor, Yaroslav Nadiak, led him to the forest of Borowe outside the town and revealed what Rava-Ruska's townsfolk had long known: that some 1,500 Jews had been shot and hastily buried in a mass grave there in November 1943. "He told me: 'Patrick, I could take you to a hundred villages like this,'" says Desbois. "And I said...
...Vysotsk - today a cluster of wooden houses with horse-drawn carts and creaking outdoor wells - a woman directed us to a memorial on the edge of the village. There, a large grave site was fenced off, and a Russian plaque announced that 1,864 Soviets - not Jews - were killed in 1942. So Desbois began knocking on doors along the one narrow road running through the village, in search of any witnesses to that day in 1942. "Were you living here during the war?" he asked as residents emerged from their homes, startled at the sight of an outsider. As darkness...
...this remote village, few people are still alive who can bear witness to these horrors, and it may be too late to correct the misinformation carved into the Soviet plaque beside the mass grave. But elsewhere, Desbois has used his dogged persistence to commemorate the execution of Jews before all recollection of them is lost forever. In late December, Yaroslav Nadiak, Rava-Ruska's former deputy mayor, hired workers to lay a cement gravestone with a Jewish star in Borowe, a village on the edge of town, atop the mass grave containing about 1,500 Jews - the one Nadiak...
...piracy remains prolific. Almost 20 billion tracks were illegally swapped or downloaded on the net in 2005. Dreaming up new ways to make money is vital. One solution: teaming willing artists' albums up with corporate sponsors, as EMI plans to do. That might have some artists turning in their grave - just imagine that, John Lennon - but with music arenas often branded these days, EMI is confident it can sell the idea to some of its talent. Coldplay's next CD, brought to you by ExxonMobil, anyone...
...confidant, "the hub" of her world, the keeper of all her secrets. He became an indispensable part of her life and probably knew her better than anyone else. And even after writing two tell-all books following her death, he insisted there were stories he would take to his grave. So when Paul Burrell, Diana's former butler, first refused to answer the question, you knew the answer...