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LETTERS, Page 9Roman Catholics at Auschwitz
It is regrettable that Poland's Franciszek Cardinal Macharski
reneged on his promise to move the Carmelite nuns from their
convent at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp (RELIGION,
Aug. 21). I believe the nuns do not belong there. Although it is
true that Christians perished at the camp, the plan to eliminate
all the Jewish people was so horrendous that the sisters should
show more sensitivity to the memory of the 6 million Jews who died
in the Holocaust. These men, women and children were put to death
not because they practiced a religious life but because they were
born Jewish.
Marilyn Shustak
Cranbury, N.J.
Hundreds of thousands of Poles died at Auschwitz, including
many priests and nuns. To force the Carmelite nuns to leave their
convent outside the barbed-wire perimeter of Auschwitz, where they
pray for all the Nazi victims, is to rewrite history.
Linda Ty-Casper
Saxonville, Mass.