The Herald Marjorie Eagan has an interesting column today about Newton-native, Boston City Councilor and candidate for Boston mayor Mike Ross

mike ross | Newton MA News and Politics BlogMuch has been written about Ross’ father, Stephen, rescued by American soldiers from the Dachau concentration camp. The starving teenager’s parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins were all murdered by Nazis.

But almost nothing has been written about the mother Ross agreed to talk about Friday in his South Boston campaign headquarters “for one reason. Because it’s who I am,” he said. “It’s where my values come from, these two amazing people with radically different lives.”