Center Field: An open letter to my teenager visiting Poland

"Be Jewish not because of Hitler but despite him. Build a thriving Israel not only because Hitler showed us the cost of being defenseless but because we benefit personally from having a state."

A SIGN marks the site of the Sobibor death camp, obliterated by the Nazis to hide their crimes after the prisoners’ revolt in 1943.

A SIGN marks the site of the Sobibor death camp, obliterated by the Nazis to hide their crimes after the prisoners’ revolt in 1943.

(photo credit: FROM THE DEPTHS)

ByGIL STERN STERN TROY

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 22:04