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Pope Francis pays silent but ‘important’ visit to Auschwitz

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said the visit "sends an important signal to the world that this dark chapter must never be forgotten."

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Pope Francis must insist Auschwitz church be moved

People of moral conscience must raise a voice for the sake of Holocaust memory and declare that a church has no place at Birkenau, writes Rabbi Avi Weiss.

US rabbi calls on Pope Francis to remove church at Auschwitz II

Rabbi Avi Weiss in a letter to the pope ahead of his visit to the Nazi death camp said "a church does not belong at the largest Jewish cemetery in the world."