Jewish leaders applauded Poland’s top Catholic cleric for calling on followers to stop putting up crosses at the site of the Auschwitz death camp. The director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Jerusalem office, Efraim Zuroff, said Cardinal Josef Glemp’s statement was a “positive development” that was “long overdue.” Catholic fringe groups, urged on by an author of anti-Semitic pamphlets, have erected some 90 crosses near the camp.
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