The World - News from July 19, 1989
A U.S. Jewish delegation accused the Roman Catholic Church of “trespassing on the greatest Jewish cemetery in all of Jewish history” by failing to move a convent from the World War II Auschwitz death camp in Poland. The delegation to the Vatican from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles made the charge in a letter to Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Agostino Casaroli. In 1987, the church promised to remove the convent by February, 1989. But so far the nuns remain, where they pray for the thousands who died in the Nazi Holocaust.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. July 20, 1989 For the Record
Los Angeles Times Thursday July 20, 1989 Home Edition Part 1 Page 2 Column 6 Foreign Desk 1 inches; 29 words Type of Material: Correction
A brief item in Wednesday’s editions of The Times dealing with Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in wartime Poland, noted that “thousands” of people died in the Holocaust. It should have said that millions died.
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