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...Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest from Paris, visited Rava-Ruska for the first time, intrigued by tales he had heard from his grandfather as a boy. The older man had been a prisoner of war in the town in the early 1940s, and had told young Patrick that horrors had occurred there. When Desbois arrived in Rava-Ruska - a town of about 8,000 a few miles from the border with Poland - to learn what had happened, "it was like a black hole," he says. "There was nothing in the books." Desbois says the then mayor declined to divulge details...
...fact, the number was far higher than that, and Desbois admits he had little idea of the huge task he had set himself when he began his full-time research in 2004. In 15 trips to Ukraine, the 52-year-old priest has since located more than 750 killing sites, some of which contain several mass graves, and he now suspects there may be another 1,800 graves scattered across the country. Ukraine's graves - many of them just depressions in the ground, suggesting the weight of hundreds of bodies - were neglected through decades of Soviet rule. Now, with many...
...short, dark-haired man with a fiery intensity and stubborn tenacity, Desbois heads a nonprofit organization in Paris called Yahad-In Unum, which promotes Catholic-Jewish relations. With his mission approved by France's Catholic bishops, he has traveled thousands of miles through remote Ukrainian villages, his priest's collar helping to put locals at ease in places where foreigners are rarely seen. Desbois taught mathematics in West Africa before becoming a priest, and later worked in Algeria; he also studied Hebrew in Jerusalem, and he serves as an advisor to the Vatican on Jewish affairs. But none of that...
...them actually share Dylan’s name. “Woody Guthrie” is a boy attempting to define himself in terms of folk music’s history. “Jack” is a Greenwich Village folk-music sensation and later, Christian convert and priest. “Robbie,” a counter-culture film star, also appears as a lover and a husband. “Jude” is a folk musician who has gone electric and gone to drugs. “Billy,” an older man living...
...much of this, one sees the legacy of Prawoto's mentor, Yusuf Bilyarta Mangunwijaya - a famed Javanese polymath who was a writer, priest and the founding figure of modern Indonesian architecture. Mangunwijaya stressed the importance of spending money on training first and materials second - a teaching adhered to by his disciple. "He wanted to empower the people," recalls Prawoto, "by giving them a skill that would last beyond any one project." And that accumulated knowledge informs Prawoto's attitude to construction. "I have learned a lot from local builders and carpenters who know best how to use materials from here...