Cross at Auschwitz
* “Crosses Moved From Lot Next to Auschwitz” (May 29) is incomplete. It says, “They left behind a large wooden cross placed on the site more than a decade ago to honor 152 Polish Catholics killed there by the Nazis in 1941” and, “The cross insulted the memory of more than 1 million Jews killed at Auschwitz and Birkenau.”
Omitted was the fact that the cross was placed in memory not only of 152 Poles executed at the site upon the opening of the camp but also in memory of the more than 75,000 Polish Catholics killed at Auschwitz. Not all the victims of the Holocaust were Jews.
TED POLAK, Chair
Polish American Defense
Committee, Los Angeles
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