The continuing agony : from the Carmelite convent to the crosses at Auschwitz / edited by Alan L. Berger, Harry J. Cargas, Susan E. Nowak.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I: Introduction -- -- II: Political Dynamics -- 1: The Carmelite Convent at Auschwitz : nationalizing theology / Alan L. Berger -- 2: The large cross in the garden of the former Carmelite convent at Auschwitz (facts and comments) / Stanislaw Krajewski -- 3: The truth about the Oswiecim cross / Father Stanislaw Musial -- 4: The cross at the gavel pit at the Oswiecim camp / Father Stanislaw Musial -- 5: Crosses in Auschwitz : crisis and turning / Jacob Neusner -- 6: Cross purposes : the conflict of symbolic territory between Poles and Jews at Auschwitz / Marvin Prosono -- 7: Crosses at Auschwitz / Tygodnik Powszechny -- 8: Bulletin / KAI (Catholic Information Agency) -- 9: The cross as the symbol of the highest love of man / Archbishop Henryle Musynski -- 10: It is the Church that must settle this dispute / The Government Information Center: The Chancery of the Prime Minister -- 11: Appeal of the primate / Milcotaj Lizut -- 12: Declaration of the Primate of Poland / Cardinal Jozef Glemp -- -- III: Psychological and Theological Dynamics -- 13: The Auschwitz convent controversy : a failure of symbols / Harry James Cargas -- 14: The struggle for memory and memorialization at Auschwitz / John T. Pawlikowski -- 15: Toward a healing of memories : Catholics, Jews and the Shoah / Eugene J Fisher -- 16: An "unfinished business:" some reflections on "Jewish Poland" today / Rachel Feldhay Brenner -- 17: Living in the land of ashes / Konstanty Gebert -- 18: The challenge of solidarity : a theological reflection on the convent & crosses at Auschwitz / Susan E. Nowak -- 19: Prayers of victims, victims of prayer / David Patterson -- 20: History remembered : an anti-Jewish exposition of the Good Friday liturgy in Durand's Rationale / Timothy M. Thibodeau -- 21: Interview with Elie Wiesel / Alan L. Berger -- -- Appendix -- 22: A convent and cross in Auschwitz / A Declaration by the Jewish and Christian Discussion Group of the Central Committee of German Catholics -- 23: The cross in Jewish-Christina relations / Edward H. Flannery -- 24: Statement of Jan Karski -- 25: Statement of the National Polish American-Jewish American Council on the recent placement of crosses at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland -- 26: “Dear Sisters” - Papal Letter to the Carmelite nuns.