The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum called on Polish authorities to remove more than 50 crosses placed outside the Auschwitz death camp. Members of a Catholic workers group set up the crosses over the weekend just outside the walls of Auschwitz as part of a campaign to maintain Christian symbols at the site. Miles Lerman, chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, who last year helped negotiate the removal of eight crosses from inside the camp grounds, said the crosses “are being used as a tool in a political fight that I condemn in the strongest terms.”
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