Grim-faced, walking slowly as he held hands with his wife, Mr. Bush listened to the senior curator of the Auschwitz Museum, Teresa Swiebocka.

When, some years ago, the Mayor of Hiroshima suggested building an Auschwitz Museum in his city, implying that the Japanese and the Jews were the main victims of World War II, nobody thought it inappropriate, or even in bad taste.

W. Gawron, Ochotnik do Oświęcimia [Volunteer for Auschwitz], Calvarianum, Auschwitz Museum, 1992.

Historians at the Auschwitz Museum estimate that 300,000 Polish Jews were among those killed.

Thus, the negotiations to remove the religious symbols involved the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Poland as well as the Polish Government-financed Auschwitz Museum and international Jewish groups.

"Auschwitz, as the world's largest cemetery, is holy ground," said Bohdan Rymaszewski, secretary of the International Committee of the Auschwitz Museum.

It is near the Auschwitz Museum on ul.

At the Auschwitz Museum he saw pictures, some barely the size of index cards, drawn by inmates.

Documents used by Kobylański, are different from those in the Auschwitz Museum.