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Daily Archives: July 15th, 2007

Silent as a Stone: Mother Maria of Paris and the Trash Can Rescue

by Jim Forest and illustrated by Dasha Pancheshnaya Silent as a Stone is a children’s book about a community of rescuers in Nazi-occupied Paris. The central figure is Mother Maria Skobtsova, an unconventional nun who choose to emerge herself in urban life and the urgent needs of her neighbors. Confronting the horror of Nazi brutality, [...]