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European Jews incensed
Plans revealed for convent at Auschwitz
BRUSSELS (JTA)—European
Jewish communities are shocked
and outraged at a plan by Polish
Catholic Church officials to build
a Carmelite convent on the site of
the Auschwitz death camp where
more than two million Jews were
murdered by the Nazis during World
War II, the World Jewish Congress
reported this week. The WJC also
reported that at its request, the
Polish government will intervene
with church officials regarding their
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and opposition to Jewish control
of America.”
On Sept. 14, Metzger and 10
members of his WAPA attended a
Farrakhan rally in Los Angeles —
he has said that it was at Farrakhan’s
invitation—and reportedly contri
buted $100 to the Nation of Islam.
“They are the black counterpart of
us,” said Metzger.
Arthur Butz, author of a book
which insists that the Holocaust
was a hoax manufactured by Jews
themselves, has been a featured
speakerforthe Institutefor Historical
Review, the “revisionist” group that
operates under the tutelage of Willis
Carto. He has toured Germany
under the sponsorship of the neo-
Nazi Deutsche Volksunion (DVU).
In February 1985, Butz, whose
doctrine is summed up in his assertion
that “the gas chambers are fictitious,”
addressed a massive convention
organized by Louis Farrakhan in
Chicago. Butz lectured the Muslims
on the evils of “International
Zionism.”
James Wickstrom is a former
director of the Posse Comitatus,
the racist, anti-Semitic paramilitary
group, which preaches lawless
vigilantism. Wickstrom, who has
advocated killing all Jews, was
plan.
Belgian Jews first learned of the
convent proposal when fund-raising
efforts for its building were organized
by a group called “Help to the
Church in Distress,” which works
for the Roman Catholic Church in
Communist countries.
According to the Brussels evening
newspaper Le Soir, eight Carmelite
monks have been living in Auschwitz
since last May, in preparation for
the erection of a convent there. The
recently quoted to the effect that he
now places Farrakhan among his
heroes. Claiming “a tremendous
amount of respect” for Farrakhan,
he told of his intention to contact
the Muslim leader to discuss a
possible coalition of their groups.
A particular current of perverse
racial and religious bigotry flowing
through the scattered bands of the
Posse Comitatus—apparent as well
in Aryan Nations and in various
Klan and neo-Nazi factions —
explains much of Farrakhan’s newly
found favor among such white
supremacists. This phenomenon is
the Identity Church movement,
which holds that white Anglo-Saxons,
not Jews, are “the true identification
of Israel.” Vicious hostility toward
the non-white races and toward
Jews (the “seed of Satan”) are
fundamental to the movement’s
“theology,” as is violence. As Robert
Miles, host of the October weekend
at the Cohoctah farm has put it:
“Israel is the white race. The Jews
are imposters.”
For his part, Farrakhan states
that “the people who call themselves
Jews” are “not the chosen people
of God—black people are.”
The fanaticism and racist logic
promulgated by extremists both
white and black—the Klans and
the Farrakhans—may well carry-
newspaper reports that the convent
would symbolize: “Love, peace and
reconciliation, witnessing the vic
torious power of the cross of Jesus.
It will become a spiritual fortress,
and the proof of the conversion of
apostates and those who went astray
in various countries.”
In early December, when a dele
gation of the WJC led by its president
Edgar Bronfman was officially
received in Warsaw, the issue was
raised with Polish authorities.
them at least part of the way dow n
their “separatist” roads together.
Anti-Semitism already has provided
a common ground, and the most
peculiar friends can always be found
among the enemy’s enemies.
Irwin Suall is director of the
Fact Finding Department of the
Anti-Defamation League's Civil
Rights Division.
Bronfman advised Poland’s Minister
of Religious Affairs Adam Lopatka
of the categorical Jewish opposition
to the proposed convent and received
Lopatka’s assurances that he would
intervene directly with Polish Catholic
officials.
In Geneva, the president of the
International Council of Jewish
Women, Leila Siegel, has written
to Sister Sheila Sedawie of the
Sisters of Zion asking that the
placement of a convent in Auschwitz
be prevented:
“We feel this way not only because
of the martyrdom of millions of
Jewish children, women and men,”
Seigel wrote, “but also because
their martyrdom was shared by
millions of human beings having
various beliefs and creeds.”
She added: “We believe that the
ground of Auschwitz belongs to all
who were massacred there and
that, therefore, no one group should
establish itself on this hallowed
ground.
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