A Shoah memorial in Denmark and a mural in Italy dedicated to Anne Frank in Italy have both been defaced.
The Holocaust memorial boulder and amphitheatre in Copenhagen pays homage to Danish citizens who risked their own lives to save Jews during the Nazi occupation of the country in the Second World War.
The boulder was defaced with graffiti whilst the steps of the amphitheatre were defaced with a large Palestinian flag and the words "Free Gaza" on Saturday.
We are saddened and disgusted by the antisemitic vandalism that defaced the memorial in Copenhagen honouring the heroic efforts to save Danish Jews from the Nazis.
— European Jewish Congress (@eurojewcong) November 11, 2023
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Posting on X/Twitter, the European Jewish Congress said: “We are saddened and disgusted by the antisemitic vandalism that defaced the memorial in Copenhagen honouring the heroic efforts to save Danish Jews from the Nazis.
“This type of hate cannot be tolerated in today's society.”
Meanwhile, the Anne Frank mural created by Italian artist aleXsandro Palombo was vandalised in Milan.
Palombo’s work, located in Milan’s Piazza Castello, portrays a tearful Anne Frank with an Israeli flag standing next to a Palestinian girl lighting a Hamas flag on fire.
The part of the mural featuring Frank was covered with large ‘Free Gaza’ graffiti.
Meanwhile, a second work by the artist located in the Porta Nuova part of the city was vandalised. It shows a boy with raised hands from a famous photo taken at the Warsaw ghetto.
The boy was surrounded by terrorists with weapons - an adult and boy of a similar age. Palombo explained the two works, called 'Innocence, hatred and hope', “were a warning about the wave of antisemitism that is overwhelming Jews all over the world".
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