{"id":854054,"date":"2021-10-06T19:29:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T23:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=854054"},"modified":"2021-10-06T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T23:29:08","slug":"auschwitz-birkenau-site-vandalized-with-anti-semitic-slogans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/auschwitz-birkenau-site-vandalized-with-anti-semitic-slogans\/","title":{"rendered":"Auschwitz-Birkenau Site Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Slogans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fauschwitz-birkenau-site-vandalized-with-anti-semitic-slogans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=854054&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/3CF87318-2060-4F1E-9189-B9C9A98ABAD9_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Areas of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum were vandalized on Tuesday with anti-Semitic language, the memorial announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/auschwitz-birkenau-barracks-vandalized-with-anti-semitic-graffiti-11633530432\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a> by The Wall Street Journal:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Spray-painted inscriptions in English and German included slogans denying the Holocaust and two Old Testament references often used by anti-Semites, the memorial said. It reported the vandalism of the nine barracks in the Birkenau camp site to local police, and said video surveillance and the inscriptions were both being analyzed.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AuschwitzMuseum\/status\/1445395857482915855?s=20\"><span class=\"s1\">statement<\/span><\/a> on Twitter, the memorial said that the case has been reported to police and they \u201chope that the person or persons who committed this outrageous act will be found and punished. We also appeal to anyone who may have witnessed the incident to send any information that may help in finding the offenders\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They also noted that \u201cSuch incident \u2014 an offense against the Memorial Site \u2014 is, above all, an outrageous attack on the symbol of one of the greatest tragedies in human history and an extremely painful blow to the memory of all the victims of the German Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9725274725275\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement concerning the vandalism that took place on October 5 at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bsNepIRCcL\">pic.twitter.com\/bsNepIRCcL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AuschwitzMuseum\/status\/1445395857482915855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Pawel Sawicki, a spokesperson for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial, said, \u201cBecause the intent of the perpetrator or perpetrators was to spread hate speech, we have decided not to make the images or the content of the graffiti public,\u201d per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/06\/world\/europe\/auschwitz-antisemitism-graffiti.html\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The Journal pointed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/en-humanities.tau.ac.il\/sites\/humanities_en.tau.ac.il\/files\/media_server\/Antisemitism%20Worldwide%202020.pdf\"><span class=\"s1\">report<\/span><\/a> on 2020 worldwide anti-Semitism by the Kantor Center at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The report noted, \u201cIn most countries a decrease was observed in violent incidents, attacks on both people and property, threats and arson, but the level of vandalism against Jewish property and institutions remained unchanged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It also said, \u201cBlaming the Jews and Israelis for developing and spreading the coronavirus (or \u2018Judeovirus\u2019), was the main motif in this year\u2019s antisemitic manifestations. This notion is rooted in a deep fear of the Jew\/Israeli as a spreader of disease in both the past and present. Iran contributed to the accusation\u2019s dissemination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The center also noted that there have been new types of anti-Semitism on display during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It found, \u201cas zoom became a most common and effective channel of communication, extremist individuals and small groups seized the opportunity and began to break into zoom conferences of synagogues, Jewish community centers and university students, disrupting the meetings and posting their own hate messages instead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Anti-Defamation League also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/reports\/2021-online-antisemitism-report-card\"><span class=\"s1\">found<\/span><\/a> that American Jews have experienced more threats of harassment and violence in recent years, according to its 2021 Online Antisemitism Report Card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The group noted that according to its \u201cannual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents,&nbsp;<span class=\"s2\">2019<\/span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<span class=\"s2\">2020<\/span>&nbsp;were, respectively, the highest and third-highest years on record for cases of harassment, vandalism, and assault against Jews in the United States since tracking began in 1979.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/auschwitz-concentration-camp-numbers\"><span class=\"s1\">history.com<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Auschwitz&nbsp;was the largest and deadliest of six dedicated extermination camps where hundreds of thousands of people were tortured and murdered during&nbsp;World War II&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Holocaust&nbsp;under the orders of Nazi dictator,&nbsp;Adolf Hitler.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It added:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The&nbsp;<\/i><span class=\"s3\"><i>Holocaust Memorial Museum estimates<\/i><\/span><i>&nbsp;that 1.3 million people were sent to the death camp in occupied Poland. Of this total, nearly 1.1 million were Jews, 960,000 of which died in the camp. The other approximately 200,000 people were predominantly made up of non-Jewish Poles, the mentally challenged, Roma people,&nbsp;<\/i><span class=\"s3\"><i>homosexuals<\/i><\/span><i>&nbsp;and Soviet prisoners of war.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cA total 1.1 million prisoners, or about 85 percent of people sent to Auschwitz, were murdered in the camp,\u201d the site noted.<\/p>\n<p>Auschwitz was different than other Nazi murder camps because \u201cit included a concentration camp and a labor camp as well as large gas chambers and crematoria at Birkenau constructed for the mass murder of European Jews,\u201d per the <a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.ushmm.org\/content\/en\/article\/auschwitz\">U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Areas of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum were vandalized on Tuesday with anti-Semitic language, the memorial announced.As reported by The Wall Street Journal:Spray-painted inscriptions in English and German included slogans &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}