Word: convention
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dershowitz is currently involved in the international controversy over Polish Cardinal Jozef Glemp and a Catholic convent built on the Auschwitz death camp, which many consider the consecrated sacred burial ground of the 2.5 million Jews who were killed there during World...
Dershowitz is currently involved in the international controversy over Polish Cardinal Jozef Glemp and a Catholic convent built on the outskirts of the Auschwitz death camp, which many consider a sacred ground for 2.5 million Jews who died there during World...
...Harvard professor is chief counsel to American Rabbi Avraham Weiss, who has launched a libel suit against Glemp for calling Weiss' peaceful protest an attempted attack on the convent's nuns...
...past five years, efforts to improve ties between Roman Catholicism and Judaism have been disrupted by turmoil over the presence of 14 Carmelite nuns at the site of the infamous Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland. The nuns maintain a convent just outside the camp's barbed-wire perimeter, in a red brick building that once housed canisters of deadly Zyklon B gas. Their mission: to pray for all the Nazis' victims, including the 6 million Jews who died in concentration camps. But the establishment of a Christian institution at a place that will forever symbolize Jewish martyrdom has stirred...
...dispute was supposedly settled in 1987, when four Cardinals, including Franciszek Macharski, whose Cracow archdiocese encompasses Auschwitz, promised that the nuns would move to a new center by February 1989. That deadline passed, but the nuns did not budge and renovations that had begun on their convent continued. The delay provoked strong Jewish protests and demonstrations at the site. Tensions escalated last month when Polish workers at the convent roughed up seven Jewish protesters and dragged them off the property...