“Hineni”: Tom Rose on the Poles Who Saved Jewish Lives |
By now, many in the diplomatic and Jewish worlds know Tom Rose not just as a diplomat, but as a voice of uncompromising moral clarity. The former publisher of The Jerusalem Post, now serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Poland, recently stood on the hallowed ground of the former Pawiak Prison in Warsaw to mark a day that remains one of the most poignant chapters in the Polish-Jewish story.
March 24th is Poland’s National Day of Remembrance for those who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. In a landscape often fraught with historical tension, Rose chose to frame the ceremony through the language of Genesis and the moral vocabulary of Jewish........