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pragmatists say that we have to accept-
the reality that the death camp may be
Washington Correspondent
holy Jewish soil, but it is also sover-
eign Polish territory.
istening to the rancorous
The purists are led by Rabbi Avi
debate over an impending
Weiss, founder of AMCHA, the
agreement with Poland on
Coalition for Jewish Concerns, and
the Auschwitz-Birkenau site
the
man who once scaled the walls of
in Poland is unsettling; the combat-
the controversial convent at
ants sometimes sound like func-
Auschwitz
to protest its pres-
tionaries fighting over turf, not
Auschwitz
ence.
serious leaders working to pre-
in W o rld
Rabbi Weiss has denounced
serve the sanctity of the world's
Wa r II
the impending agreement
biggest Jewish graveyard.
between the Polish government
There's a growing Holocaust
and a consortium of Jewish groups,
bureaucracy that seems disturbingly
saying that it will allow fast-food
like any other bureaucracy — riven by
restaurants, parking lots and an offen-
private feuds, personal ambitions and
sive
cross at the site.
outsized egos. And there are critics
The
outspoken rabbi fears a gradual
whose zeal seems to suggest they live
kind
of
revisionism in which the
in some alternate universe, where
c "compromise" isn't in the dictionary.
Jewishness of the site — and of the
memory itself — will be slowly dilut-
But listen closely to these guys, and
ed by the encroachment of other sto-
you begin to hear a different message:
ries and symbols. Future generations,
There are no truly satisfactory
he worries, will learn about a generic
answers. Efforts to come to terms with
Holocaust, not an overwhelmingly
the memory and the physical
Jewish
tragedy.
reminders of Auschwitz will never heal
The other side is led by Miles
the festering psychological wound of
Lerman, chair of the U.S. Holocaust
the Holocaust. Memorials and muse-
Memorial Council, the board oversee-
ums are important, but in the end we
ing the Holocaust Museum in
will still feel the pain of unanswered
Washington.
questions and unrighted wrongs.
Lerman insists that the coalition he
On one side of this nasty debate are
represents,
which includes Yad
Holocaust purists who are ready to
Vashem,
the
American Jewish
fight to the death to resist any non-
Committee
and
others, is making the
Jewish encroachment on either the
most' of a new openness in the Polish
history or the physical site of
government, and that the agreement
Auschwitz. On the other are pragma-
— which was put on hold when the
tists who are willing to strike the best
World Jewish Congress balked at the
deal they can, knowing that they are
presence of the large cross at the site
dealing with a country — Poland —
—
will ultimately preserve and
with its own heavy historical baggage
enhance
the Jewish character of the
and a culture that teeters between an
site.
intolerant past and hopes for a democ-
So who's right? Probably both —
ratic future.
and neither.
The purists don't want a scintilla of
History suggests a universal impulse
non-Jewish symbolism at the site; the
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