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nuns from a convent at
Auschwitz to a location near-
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despite indications from Cath-
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imminent.
Polish Catholic officials re-
iterated that the relocation
of the 14 nuns living at the
convent would take place
within a matter of days.
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they are concerned by
reports that the nuns are
resisting efforts to have
them vacate the premises.
"Everybody in the Vat-
ican, from the pope on down,
has long been committed to
this, and the (Polish) epis-
copate is, but the nuns are
complaining they've not
been consulted," said Rabbi
A. James Rudin, director of
interreligious affairs at the
American Jewish Com-
mittee.
The nuns have the sym-
pathy and support of some
local Catholics, who regard
the transfer of the Carmelite
convent to a new facility
across the road and off the
grounds of the death camp as
an affront to Polish dignity,
he said.
In sermons, a local priest
has preached that the nuns
should not leave and that to
do so would be to submit to
outside pressure, according
to Rabbi Rudin.
The Polish Catholic news-
paper The Word recently ran
an editorial charging that
the only time convents have
been closed has been under
occupiers of Poland — the
Russians, the Prussians and
the Austrians. From the
Polish point of view, "this is
the worst company anyone
could be in," Rabbi Rudin
said.
And in a letter to the
editor recently reprinted in
another, secular newspaper,
a senior member of the
Polish Catholic hierarchy
wrote "if and when the nuns
move," according to Rabbi
Rudin, who termed the
language "ominous."
It is up to the Polish epis-
copate — their version of a
bishops conference — to in-
itiate the move, and it may
be paralyzed by an internal
debate over whether
transferring the nuns is the
correct thing to do.
"Inside the church in
Poland there's a struggle go-
ing on," said Rabbi Rudin.
"What's disturbing is this
main obstacle has been
played out now for six
years," since the issue of
nuns living and praying at
Auschwitz first came to
widespread public attention.
"I know the nuns will
move, but the question is
when," he said.
The Vatican reportedly
sent a letter of instructions
for moving the convent to
Tadeusz Rakoczy, the bishop
of the area that includes
Oswiecim, the Polish town
where Auschwitz is located.
According to Rabbi Rudin,
the bishop received that
letter.
But Rabbi Avi Weiss, pres-
ident of Amcha, the Coali-
The nuns have the
support of local
Catholics.
tion for Jewish Concerns,
said he doubts the letter's
existence. "No one we have
contacted, whether Catholic
or Polish officials, has been
able to produce the text" of
the letter, Rabbi Weiss said.
According to Rabbi Rudin,
Mr. Rabin has said that the
problem with the convent
and commemorations of the
uprising should not be link-
ed, and that he will go to
Warsaw regardless of
whether or not the convent
problem is resolved.
The AJCommittee was
still considering whether or
not to participate.
Meanwhile, Bishop Rakoc-
zy is said to have told an
American reporter that he
expects the nuns to be out
"in a few days."
And Rabbi Rudin said he
had received reports that the
primate of Poland, Ar-
chbishop Jozef Glemp, said
this week that the nuns
would leave "soon."
"If these reports are true,
then it is indeed a hopeful
sign," said the AJCom-
mittee official. "But we're
still waiting for them to
leave."