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...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. 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...
...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 had first revealed to Desbois in 2003, setting the priest...
...Excursion: Abramtsevo, the estate of Savva Mamontov, 19th century industrialist and patron of the arts. It's 80 minutes by local train (elektrichka) from the Yaroslav Station, then a 10-to-20-minute walk through pleasant woods. Price around $3.50. Closed, like nearly all museums, on Mondays...
...Yaroslav A. Angelyuk, an employee at Moscow Women's Bank, as quoted in The New York Time, April...
Somewhere over the Altai Mountains, experts at Montreal's International Air Transport Association now believe, Captain Yaroslav Kudrinski's 15-year-old son -- who, with his sister, was apparently receiving a lesson from Dad on how to fly the plane -- inexplicably may have disengaged the plane's autopilot, stalling the craft and sending it into a dive. In a desperate effort to stave off disaster, someone lunged for the instrument panel. Whoever it was very nearly succeeded; Flight 593 crashed with its nose slightly up and its wings level, indicating that seconds before impact, someone regained at least control...