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state and a non-governmental organi-
zation, the years-long project turned
the barren site of a Nazi German
death camp, where an estimated
500,000 Jews had been killed in less
than a year, into a protected place of
memory and education.
In the presence of more than 1,000
invited guests, including Holocaust
survivors, diplomats and a large
contingent of officers from the Israel
Defense Forces, Polish President
Aleksander Kwasniewski spoke and,
later, laid a wreath; the U.S. ambas-
sador read a letter from President
George W. Bush, and the Polish Bishop
of Zamosc read a message from Pope
John Paul II.
And, in 2012, after President Barack
Obama’s unfortunate misstatement,
on the occasion of conferring post-
humously the Presidential Medal of
Freedom on Jan Karski, the Polish
wartime hero, about a “Polish death
camp,” AJC wrote in the New York
Times: “Poland was the first target of
the Nazi military juggernaut. Many
Poles fought courageously, first on the
battlefield, later in the underground,
against the Nazi occupation of their
country. The Nazis, not the Poles, built
the infamous death camps, includ-
ing Auschwitz, where many Polish
Catholics in addition to countless Jews
were sent.”
WHY WARSAW?
Frankly, several capitals in the region
expressed interest in hosting the
office. Any one of them would have
letters
been an attractive venue for our
operation. But Warsaw made the
most sense. Poland is the largest of the
seven countries, and it is geographi-
cally at the heart of the region. While
there are many layers of Jewish his-
tory in each of these nations, Poland
occupies a unique place in the Jewish
world, having been home before the
war to millions of Jews, an astonish-
ingly vibrant Jewish culture, and every
school of Jewish political, cultural and
religious thought.
And while AJC has maintained
close ties with all the countries in
the region, Poland looms particularly
large, given our engagement — in
Poland, the United States and at the
Vatican — well before the end of com-
munism in 1989.
We could not be more excited to
open the AJC Central Europe office in
Warsaw, and we earnestly hope it will
contribute to the further deepening
of ties among the seven nations, the
United States, Israel, and the Jewish
people.
The legendary 19th-century Polish
poet Adam Mickiewicz wrote: “The
nectar of life is sweet only when
shared with others.” Our goal is to
help prove his words as accurate in
the 21st century, through the work of
our new office, as when he first wrote
them. •
David Harris is CEO of the American Jewish
Committee (AJC). AJC Central Europe is the
organization’s fifth office in Europe. The others
are in Berlin, Brussels, Paris and Rome.
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physicians for more “personal atten-
tion” and to have more time with
them on visits.
Unfortunately, twice in the article,
the role of the nurse practitioner
was demeaned and disrespected,
when it was portrayed as a role
of “physician extender,” who sees
patients because of the physician’s
lack of time.
The article stated that physicians
in these boutique settings with a
decreased patient load “offer per-
sonal attention instead of handing
patients off to a nurse practitioner.”
The nurse practitioner is, in fact, a
healthcare professional patients may
choose to see for quality care and
personal attention in varied medical
settings.
I have been in practice as a nurse
practitioner since 1978, and I have
seen the role of the NP evolve and
expand from pediatric well baby
care and adult primary care to posi-
tions in acute and chronic care set-
tings and in specialty care. The NP
brings expertise and a focus in coun-
seling and education to all roles and,
in doing so, provides high-quality
care to patients of all ages.
I see patients for comprehensive
women’s care in a large internal med-
icine practice as part of a health care
team. Patients choose to see me and,
in many cases, have been referred to
me by physicians for management of
their needs within my areas of exper-
tise. I am there to meet those needs
based on my education, certifications
and experience.
It is important that the role of
the nurse practitioner is presented
as a healthcare professional who
delivers quality care and not as a
“hand-off ” caregiver because a phy-
sician doesn’t have enough time for
patients.
Nancy R. Berman
MSN, ANP-BC, NCMP, FAANP
Fellow of the American Association
of Nurse Practitioners
CORRECTION
In the story about William “Bill”
Farber (April 6, page 18), grandson
Justin Farber is the son of Jill Farber.