Posted on 01/25/2005 1:52:58 PM PST by lizol
Demonstration Against Catholic Church in Birkenau 21:45 Jan 25, '05 / 15 Shevat 5765
(IsraelNN.com) A delegation from Amcha the Coalition for Jewish Concerns, will be demonstrating tomorrow, Wednesday, January 27th, at the site of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland.
The action at Auschwitz comes on the eve of the 60th anniversary commemoration of the death camps liberation from the Nazis, which is drawing heads of state and foreign ministers, including United States Vice-President Dick Cheney and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The demonstrators at Auschwitz will be at the Catholic church in Birkenau, Auschwitz killing grounds, where over a million Jews were murdered. The church had been the SS commandants headquarters at Birkenau.
The demonstrators charge that the presence of the church at Birkenau is totally inappropriate since one million Jews were murdered there by the Nazis because they were Jews. We demand that the church decamp the building immediately. The presence of the church only perpetuates the strong feeling that the Catholic church is making a deliberate effort to Christianize sites and symbols of the Holocaust. The Polish government, which administers the Auschwitz site, has the power to remove the church.
Rabbi David Kalb, National Vice President of Amcha the Coalition for Jewish Concerns, stated that it is completely inappropriate to have a church at the site of the largest Jewish cemetery in the world. We do not agree with the construction of any religious house of worship in Birkenau the camp must be left how it was, so people can really understand what happened.
This demonstration is coordinated by the US-based Amcha the Coalition for Jewish Concerns, whose national president is Rabbi Avi Weiss.
Doesn't 'Never Forget' mean that you don't erase history either?
You mean who's trying to erase history?
Dear Coalition for Jewish Concerns,
Having been the victim of horrendous and unconscionable historical events confers no rights to you to victimize others today.
Learn from what happened to you, and see if that which you are demanding here may be a touch hypocritical.
Nationalists, ignore them...
"You mean who's trying to erase history?"
No, I mean don't erase it. The Catholic church at Birkenau was the HQ for some SS commandant assclown.
Egads as if Jews dont have enough bad press these days without clowns like this drawing more hate for them.
It might be news to these ethnocentric bigots, but alot of Polish Catholics died in the 'Holocaust' too, because Hitler wanted to decapitate Polands leadership.
Unless of course, you care to claim that the Catholics slaughtered dont count somehow.
Catholics have every right to mourn their own that the Nazis killed, and that church was taken over by the SS probably by force or threat of force.
The church is not in the habit of renting its buildings out to the state for use in these sorts of things.
Good greif.
I used to wonder how the antichrist would arise from a worldwide organization in Rome, but no longer. Based on all the horrible persecutions that have emanated from there, I'm not sure why it hasn't already happened. God forgive us Christians for not informing the people better against these hyper-deceived cultists.....
Who's brilliant idea was it to put a freakin' church on the site the head Nazi murderers office in the first place? Couldn't they just leave the place alone? I hate "demonstrations" but I can sort of understand it is hallowed ground.
Seems like it was in a book by John Loftis or Lofton?
I am quite old and I just cannot remember all the details.
I think some Ukrainian nazis got to Canada and Australia the same way.
I am not anti-Roman Catholic at all, but every group seems to have sins... even my own Baptists.
"I used to wonder how the antichrist would arise from a worldwide organization in Rome, but no longer."
You got bad info, this is a load of donkey dung.
These Jews are confrontational and insincere, looking to get free press for the controversy that they manufacture.
They do not want reconciliation; they make their cash on confrontation instead.
Since the RCC is backing off at every opportunity, why should they stop?
You will have to hand them the whole country of Poland before they will shut up and maybe not even then.
"Hyper-deceived cultist" here. I know nothing about the Catholic PM of Slovakia, so I can't comment on that. But while you're stewing about "all the horrible persecutions" that have emanated from Rome, you might want to reflect on the 860,000 Jews that the Israeli scholar Pinchas Lapide estimates were saved through the efforts of Pope Pius XII. People were hidden in the Pope's summer residence, given jobs in the Vatican, dressed as religious etc.
You might ask yourself how the Poles treated their jewish neighbors.
You might remind yourself that the Warsaw Ghetto was actually in Poland, believe it or not.
This was incredibly stupid, I agree. A monument to the Catholics that were killed,ok...a church? Nah.
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