{"id":201515,"date":"2020-01-28T08:53:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T08:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201515"},"modified":"2020-01-31T08:05:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T08:05:33","slug":"rabbis-call-for-removal-of-church-at-auschwitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201515","title":{"rendered":"Rabbis call for removal of church at Auschwitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 Jan 27, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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A machine shop at Auschwitz. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Even if we ignore questions about how many died there, or how they died, or whether Auschwitz was a \u201cdeath camp\u201d or a forced labour facility, the following report speaks volumes. Here we have a group of rabbis calling for the removal of a church at Auschwitz, as if it were an affront tantamount to sacrilege.<\/h5>\n
The thing is that thousands of Roma, ethnic Poles and other groups were also held at Auschwitz. Of these it\u2019s estimated that as many as 100,000 died there<\/a><\/span>, a good proportion of whom were undoubtedly Christian.<\/h5>\n
Yet according the leading rabbi, Avi Weiss: \u201cThis (the church) in my mind is the greatest desecration of the history of the Holocaust\u201d.<\/h5>\n
So why does rabbi Weiss consider this “desecration” when 100,000 gentiles also died at Auschwitz? Don’t they count, or did they breach an exclusively Jewish area?<\/h5>\n
Weiss was arrested in 1995 for orchestrating a sit-in to protest against what he claimed was an attempt to portray the site as a place mainly of Christian martyrdom. Of course, this is exactly what rabbi Weiss is trying to do, except that he\u2019s trying to make Auschwitz a site commemorating Jewish martyrdom exclusively.<\/h5>\n
Obviously, the presence of a church obstructs this.<\/h5>\n
So now Avi Weiss is calling for the church\u2019s removal. If it happens, this will also help diminish the memory of the 100,000 ethnic Poles and other non-Jews who died in Auschwitz. Is this what Avi Weiss really wants?<\/h5>\n
Rabbi Weiss also completely ignores the fact that the Nazis specifically singled out the Catholic Church in Poland for persecution; at least 1,800 Polish Catholic priests died<\/span><\/a> while in Nazi concentration camps.<\/h5>\n
I\u2019m not a Catholic but these protests strike me as being part of a broader campaign to elevate Jewish suffering to the exclusion of all other groups. What is sometimes referred to as Holocaustianity. Ed.<\/h5>\n

Rabbis call for removal of church at Auschwitz<\/h1>\n

Reuters \u2013 Jan 26, 2020<\/h2>\n

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Four U.S. rabbis led by New York\u2019s Avi Weiss gathered on Sunday in front of a church next to the Nazi German death camp at Birkenau in Poland arguing for its removal from a site where more than a million Jews were murdered.<\/span><\/p>\n

World leaders will gather on Monday at Birkenau and the nearby Auschwitz camp to mark the 75th anniversary of their liberation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis protest for us is very much part of the commemoration. For there to be a commemoration ceremony without an expression of deep, deep outrage that the church is still here would send a message that we\u2019re ok with this,\u201d Weiss said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rabbis argue the church should not be on the site of one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in the world and it violates a 1987 agreement between European cardinals and Jewish leaders that there will not be any permanent Catholic place of worship on the site of the Auschwitz or Birkenau camps.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis (the church) in my mind is the greatest desecration of the history of the Holocaust,\u201d Weiss said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBeneath this ground is a cemetery … their bloods are crying out from the ground demanding justice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The rabbis want the church to be moved elsewhere in Oswiecim.<\/span><\/p>\n

Weiss was making his first visit to the church since 1995, when at the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz he was arrested for orchestrating a sit-in in to protest against what he sees as attempts to portray it as a place mainly of Christian martyrdom.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Sunday, as mass ended, the rabbis tried to enter the church and speak with some of the parishioners, as well as with the priest. The priest turned away from them. He did not want to speak with them and slammed the door.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some parishioners raised their voices and expressed displeasure at the rabbis\u2019 presence but didn\u2019t want to speak to Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Weiss led a long\u00a0and\u00a0ultimately successful campaign in the 1980s to secure the removal of a Carmelite convent from outside the\u00a0Auschwitz\u00a0grounds. It had been set up in a building just outside the wire once used as a store for poison gas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jews were brought from all over Europe to\u00a0Auschwitz-Birkenau to be murdered during the war as part of a Nazi genocide campaign in which six million perished. Tens of thousands of Catholic Poles, including priests\u00a0and\u00a0resistance fighters, were tortured\u00a0and\u00a0killed there too.<\/span><\/p>\n

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