Anti-Semitic vandalism was discovered at the site of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Tuesday, according to staff at the Auschwitz memorial and museum.
The graffiti was found at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site in Poland, the largest of the 40 camps that made up the Nazi complex. Nine of the barracks were spray-painted with anti-Semitic slurs – all denying the Holocaust.
The museum said in a statement: “Such incident – an offense against the Memorial Site – is, above all, an outrageous attack on the symbol of one of the great tragedies in human history and an extremely painful blow to the memory of all the victims of the German Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.”
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Polish police are investigating the crime, according to the museum. Staff put out a PSA to any pedestrians who witnessed anyone near the death camp on Tuesday morning.
“As soon as the police have compiled all the necessary documentation, the conservators of the Auschwitz memorial will begin removing traces of vandalism from historical buildings,” the museum noted in a statement.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial continues to preserve the Nazi camp on Polish soil from World War II. Around 1 million Jewish people were murdered at Auschwitz in the four and a half years after it opened in 1940, with most being sent to gas chambers at Birkenau.
Security at the site has been funded by the museum’s budget and fully enclosing the property wouldn’t be possible in the immediate future.
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