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Auschwitz Convent's
New Building Unfinished
London (JTA) — Funding
problems are still holding up
the relocation of a Carmelite
convent from the grounds of
the former Auschwitz death
camp in southeastern
Poland, a senior Vatican of-
ficial said here this week.
Archbishop Edward
Cassidy, president of the
Vatican Commission for Re-
ligious Relations With the
Jews, could not say when the
interfaith prayer and edu-
cation center that is to house
the convent would be com-
pleted.
"The building is well ad-
vanced. Financial contribu-
tions have come from out-
side, including from the holy
father," Archbishop Cassidy
told British Jewish leaders
during a conference here.
"But it is a constant struggle
to reach completion," he
added.
The Vatican is reported to
have contributed $144,000
toward the project.
The presence of Carmelite
nuns at Auschwitz, where an
estimated 1.4 million Jews
perished during the Holo-
caust, outraged Jewish opi-
nion and led to sorely strain-
ed relations between
Catholics and Jews, which
have only recently been
repaired.
As long ago as February
1987, the European Catholic
cardinals pledged to world
Jewish leaders that the con-
vent would be relocated
within three years. That
deadline was not met.
But construction began
last year on a new complex,
across the road and out of
sight of Auschwitz, that will
contain a cloistered convent.
It is supposed to be com-
pleted next year. Bishop
Henryk Muszynski, chair-
man of the Polish Episcopal
Commission for Dialogue
With the Jews, said during a
visit to the United States
last month that the first
building of the complex
would be dedicated in May
or June.
But Archbishop Cassidy
could give no date.
And in New York, Rabbi
Leon Klenicki, who recently
returned from a visit to the
Auschwitz site, said the
nuns "will move into their
new cloister a year and a
half from now."
The structure of the con-
vent has been completed,
though the interior remains
unfinished, said Rabbi
Klenicki, who is director of
interfaith affairs at the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith.
When asked why it would
take 18 months to put down
floors and install fixtures,
Rabbi Klenicki replied,
"Poland is not like America.
It takes years and years to
get things done."
Israel Pressured
To Free Sheik Obeid
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London (JTA) — Israel is
facing mounting pressure
from friendly governments
in the West to free an ex-
tremist Moslem cleric its
forces captured in Lebanon
two years ago.
Their belief is that the
release of Sheik Abdul
Karim Obeid would bring
about the freedom of
Western hostages long held
by Shi'ite groups in Leb-
anon.
Sheik Obeid, who was
seized by Israeli commandos
in July 1989, was spiritual
mentor of a faction of Hez-
bollah, the pro-Iranian
Moslem fundamentalist
movement that has waged
guerrilla warfare against
Israeli forces and their allies
in southern Lebanon for
years. Groups associated
with Hezbollah are believed
to be holding many of the
Western hostages.
British Prime Minister
John Major appealed direct-
ly for Sheik Obeid's release
last week when he received
Israeli Prime Minister Yit-
zhak Shamir at No. 10
Downing Street.
Mr. Major asked Israel's
help after Iranian Foreign
Minister Ali Akbar Velyati
hinted strongly that the
release of 12 Western
hostages, including three
Britons, could be achieved if
the West pressed Israel to
free Sheik Obeid and several
hundred other Lebanese
prisoners it holds.
A senior Israeli official
here said Israel would be
happy to help, but insists
first that seven of its own
soldiers, who are prisoners of
war in Arab hands, are
released and sent home.
Israeli officials fear
Western leaders will
pressure the Jewish state.
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