Damage to the wall of a building in Philadelphia Memorial Park… ‘Hakenkreuz’
Jewish group: “This is an insult to the victims of Jewish genocide”
American society was shocked by the Hakenkreuz graffiti carved into a memorial park for the massacre of Jews in the United States.
According to Fox News on the 15th (local time), the wall of the Verizon building at the Horwitzwhatserman Holocaust Memorial Park in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was damaged.
At around 2:20 p.m. on the 14th, Philadelphia police responded to a report that “someone had spray-painted Hakenkreuz on the wall of the building.”
Police authorities immediately began an investigation and are currently searching for the suspect. The suspect was reported to be a man wearing a black mask and brown jacket at the time of the crime.
Esther Kutas, CEO of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation, said in an interview with WPVI-TV, “The place where this incident occurred is the oldest Holocaust memorial park in the United States,” and “It is a very upsetting incident.”
This park, a 5-minute walk from Philadelphia City Hall, is said to have a history of 60 years.
In 1964, Holocaust survivors donated a bronze sculpture named ‘Memorial to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs’ to the city of Philadelphia to commemorate the victims. This is North America’s first public monument to Holocaust victims.
“This act is an insult to the victims of the Holocaust and a product of the anti-Semitism that plagues our community,” Andrew Gorecki, manager of the Philadelphia branch of the Anti-Defamation League, the largest Jewish organization in the United States, said in a statement posted to X. It was said.
He added, “We must fight against hatred and work to eradicate prejudice against Jews.”
Philadelphia is the first capital of the United States and the second most populous city in the northeastern United States after New York.
Source: Donga
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