Will the removal of the crosses and the disarming of Switon's explosives be the last episode in Christian-Jewish conflict about Auschwitz? That is far from clear and even unlikely. A case in point involves a building at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Just outside the barbed-wire perimeter, situated across a narrow road, there is a former Nazi facility that is clearly identified on Auschwitz-Birkenau maps as the "new commandant's office." This structure was transformed into a Catholic church early in the 1980s. Among other functions, it commemorates Edith Stein, a German Jew who converted to Catholicism in 1922, became a nun as well as a distinguished philosopher, and was deported in 1942 from the Netherlands to Birkenau, where she was gassed. Although her deportation was provoked by Dutch Catholic dissent against Nazi antisemitism, Stein was not murdered primarily because she was Catholic but because, according to the Nazis' racial definitions, she was Jewish. The Vatican's 1998 decision to canonize her as a saint was greeted with considerable disagreement, especially but not exclusively among Jews. Meanwhile, little protest about the Birkenau church took place when its doors first opened, but controversy about it has swirled since, and history suggests that it might do so again.