Take a load off your heart. BUY A CASE OF FOOD TO HELP FEED THE JEWISH HUNGRY. Concentration Camps Are 'Christianized' New York (JTA) — After a recent visit to Eastern Europe, activist Rabbi Avi Weiss has warned that the sites of former Nazi death camps are being Christianized by the presence of churches and crosses. Rabbi Weiss, with a small group of followers, demonstrated Aug. 17 at a Catholic church lo- cated at the Auschwitz/Birkenau eath camp, and went on to the obibor death camp in Poland, Theresienstadt in the Czech Re- ublic and Dachau, which is 10- bated in Germany. The demonstration recalled the now-notorious one Rabbi Weiss led in 1989 to protest the presence of a convent at 1 ,iuschwitz. It ended with Rabbi Weiss and his followers being kicked and punched by convent workers in the presence of Polish police. This protest went without in- cident. "Revisionism is happening right now in the camps," said Rabbi Weiss in a telephone in- terview from Paris. "This is noth- ing less than an attempt to Christianize the Holocaust. "No matter where you stand in , k when you look up you 3ee crosses towering over your :lead," said Rabbi Weiss, who Meads Amcha-the Coalition for Jewish Concerns. "If revisionism is taking place right there, then it is inevitable - hat the history of the Holocaust will be distorted," he said. The Auschwitz/Birkenau Church, which is located outside the barbed-wire fence that en- 'closed prisoners, is in a building designed by the Nazis to house the camp commandant's office. The building was never used or that purpose, according to Rabbi Weiss, but was used to eat, rape and murder Jewish women taken there by Nazi guards from inside Birkenau. .37It was used as a candle facto- following the war and is the nly structure remaining of the complex that served as the Nazi p.eadquarters at Auschwitz/ Birkenau, said Rabbi Weiss. The presence of the church vi- plates a 1987 agreement signed by European Jewish leaders and four Catholic cardinals stipulat- ng that "there will be no perma- ent Catholic place of worship at kuschwitz/Birkenau," said Rab- toi. Weiss. During his hour-long protest, Rabbi Weiss and his followers r olocked the entrance to the 'church, said Psalms and recited Kaddish, the Jeirish prayer for the dead. d They were surrounded by at least 25 Polish police, said Rabbi Weiss. A 40-foot-high cross remains outside the building which housed the controversial convent at Auschwitz, said Rabbi Weiss. That building was originally used to store Zyklon-B, the gas used to murder many of the 1.6 million Jews killed at Auschwitz. The Carmelite nuns who had occupied the site vacated it last year after an international furor over their presence, delicate ne- gotiations between Jewish lead- ers and Catholic officials, the construction of a new convent and meeting center nearby and, fi- nally, the intercession of Pope John Paul II. "The issue is that a cross at Auschwitz is as inappropriate as a Jewish star would be at the largest Christian cemetery in the world," said Rabbi Weiss. At Sobibor, where 250,000 Jews and 1,000 non-Jews were murdered by Nazis, a large, two- story Catholic church has been standing since the late 1970s, he said. It was built on the site of a small, prewar chapel which had been used by Nazis to kill some Bells peal hourly from a Catholic monument near Dachau. Jews and was razed by the Nazis after the revolt at Sobibor. At Theresienstadt there is a 50-foot-high cross at the entrance of the camp, said Rabbi Weiss. Dachau is "the worst," he said. "Today it is a Christian camp." There is a Carmelite convent built in 1964 at the back of the concentration camp whose resi- dents "are praying for atonement and reconciliation;" said Rabbi Weiss. A Protestant church, in an- other recently built building, is also located within Dachau and holds regular Sunday worship services, he said. Bells peal hourly from a Catholic monument near Dachau, said Rabbi Weiss, over- shadowing the menorah which constitutes a Jewish memorial there. If the church at Bir- kenau/Auschwitz II is not re- moved by next spring, he warned, he will orchestrate a "massive" protest in time for the 50th an- niversary of the liberation of the death camps by the allied forces. • YAD EZRA American Heart Association WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE feeding .4e lewigh Hwy Use this coupon to help feed the Jewish hungry. YAD EZRA will use your donations to purchase cases of food and distribute them to our neighbors in need. Sweets andSympatny firm Cookies Etc. 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