Before it was a place of horror and destruction, Auschwitz was a town where Catholics and Jews used to live together.
“There was a large Catholic monastery right next to a synagogue,” said Dr. Robert Jan Van Pelt, a leading authority on the history of Auschwitz and historian and curator of Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.
Pelt addressed the issues of antisemitism and Jewish-Catholic relations in a lecture presented by the Sheen Center and the Museum of Jewish Heritage on Sunday night in New York City.
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