Yad Vashem entrance vandalized

Yad Vashem entrance vandalized

Walls of Holocaust Museum’s plaza defaced with slogans reading ‘Hitler, thanks for the Holocaust’ and ‘If Hitler didn’t exist the Zionists would have had to invent him.’ Police launch investigation
Omri Efraim

 

The entrance to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem was vandalized overnight.

 

 

Museum workers discovered the damage upon arriving on the premises Monday morning.

 

 

According to available details, unknown vandals sprayed graffiti reading „Hitler, thanks for the Holocaust” and „If Hitler didn’t exist the Zionists would have had to invent him” on one of the walls.

 

 

 

Some 10 other slogans of the same nature were daubed in several other areas as well, including „Israel is the secular Auschwitz of the Eastern congregations,” and „Jews wake up – the Zionist regime is dangerous.”

 

Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vshem, said: „I’m appalled by this blatant act of hatred towards the state and towards Zionism. This has crossed a red line. I’ve informed the education minister of this incident and he too was outraged.”

 

 

The police have launched an investigation. Crime scene investigators were sent to the museum to collect evidence.