1.   Poles also consider Auschwitz a symbol of Polish suffering under the Nazis and they want the papal cross to stay.

2.   But Jewish groups balked at signing the agreement this year, demanding the removal of the papal cross.

3.   But they defend the papal cross as an appropriate symbol honoring Polish martyrdom.

4.   But removing the smaller crosses will only take the dispute back to the original question what to do with the papal cross.

5.   By then the papal cross was standing at the nunnery, visible from the Death Wall inside Auschwitz.

6.   Cardinal Jozef Glemp and other Polish church leaders have criticized the additional crosses near the papal cross as provocations by irresponsible people.

7.   Cardinal Jozef Glemp and other Polish church leaders have criticized the smaller crosses near the papal cross as provocations by irresponsible people.

8.   Church leaders softened in late August, calling for the smaller crosses to be removed but saying the papal cross must remain.

9.   Even President Aleksander Kwasniewski, a former communist and political foe of Buzek, supports keeping the papal cross.

10.   Fearful that the government would cave in to Jewish demands and move the papal cross, Polish nationalists have put up the smaller crosses to try to protect it.