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Holocaust Memorials Tagged With Anti-Semitic Graffiti

Mar 13, 2010 – 5:50 PM
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WARSAW, Poland (March 13) -- Vandals sprayed anti-Semitic graffiti on Holocaust memorials at a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland, desecration that authorities discovered Saturday and are investigating.
Workers removing anti-Semitic graffiti from a Holocaust memorial at a former Nazi concentration camp
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Workers try to remove anti-Semitic graffiti vandals sprayed on Holocaust memorials at a former Nazi concentration camp in Plaszow, Poland, on Saturday.

Words including "Jude Raus" - German for "Jew Out" - and "Hitler Good!" in English, were found in red paint Saturday on a large monument at the former Plaszow camp near Krakow. A smaller memorial plaque was also painted with a swastika and "Jude Raus."

The vandalism was discovered a day before a planned memorial march marking the 67th anniversary of the liquidation of Krakow's ghetto.

On March 13, 1943, German soldiers started a two-day action in which they emptied Krakow's ghetto of its estimated 16,000 Jewish residents, shipping them to Plaszow and to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

The news agency PAP quoted a police official, Anna Zbroja, as saying authorities are on the spot trying to determine when the vandalism occurred.

The Plaszow camp featured in Steven Spielberg's 1993 Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List," which chronicled efforts by German industrialist Oskar Schindler to save Jews by having them work in his Krakow factory.
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