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According to a recent Reader item [Calendar, November 10], the nuns at Auschwitz are, “inexplicably,” still there. Well . . . It’s about time someone did some explaining to the seeming thousands of short-memoried American liberals bashing the Catholic church and (inexplicably, I might add) the convent at Auschwitz. May I remind all of you that the largest number of Catholic religious ever collected in one place were forcibly interned at Auschwitz during the war? Over 300,000, if I remember my figures correctly.
There have, admittedly, been unfortunate and condemnable instances of anti-Semitism in Poland. But aside from these, the Jewish people and Catholics should look upon the Holocaust as something we can unite in our feelings about, not as a source of division. It has become such recently, and I urge all who have allowed it to become so (be they Catholic or Jewish) to re-examine their views and re-read their history books.
