For a Jewish reporter with Eastern European roots, one of the hardest challenges covering the war is reconciling the horrors of the Holocaust with the Poland and Ukraine of today.
LUBLIN, Poland — On a recent morning, I sat in the sun-filled dining room of a tidy house in eastern Poland, across from one of the most generous men I’ve ever met.
He was a Polish apple farmer who took in eight Ukrainian refugees, all complete strangers, and gave them a place to stay, cooked them meals, brought them armloads of fresh bread every morning and has been trying to find them jobs.
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