The battle for Auschwitz
Subtitle: Catholic-Jewish relations under strain
By: Emma Klein ; with a foreword by Jonathan Webber.
Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Catholic Church -- Relations -- Judaism.; Holocaust memorials -- Poland.; Judaism -- Relations -- Catholic Church.; Holocaust (Jewish theology); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Influence.
Description: "Auschwitz: the ultimate symbol of the Holocaust or the focal point of Polish martyrdom? These conflicting claims strained Catholic-Jewish relations after Carmelite nuns established a convent on the perimeters of the Auschwitz concentration camp. When a large cross was erected in the convent garden, many Jews regarded this as yet another step towards the Christianisation of Auschwitz." "Highly-charged emotions, misunderstandings and deliberate misinformation fuelled a fifteen year saga which seemed doomed to remain unresolved."

"The Battle For Auschwitz tells this story and asks what is the future of Auschwitz-Birkenau? Now that the cross will remain as a memorial to the Polish victims of Nazism, how should the memory of the million Jewish martyrs be preserved?"--Jacket.