A memorial to 1000’s of Jews killed within the Holocaust had been vandalized in Thessaloniki, the second such incident in as many weeks, Greece’s high Jewish physique has mentioned.
A mural commemorating the deportation of the Jews of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second metropolis, to the Nazi camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau had been daubed with swastikas and fascist symbols, it mentioned.
“Vandal anti-Semites roam freely and stain undisturbed any attempt to preserve Holocaust memory in Thessaloniki,” the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) mentioned in an announcement.
Last month, a swastika and a fascist image had been additionally sprayed on a monument devoted to the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki, one of many oldest in Europe, which was destroyed in 1942 when Nazi Germany occupied Greece.
There have been no arrests.
“Once again we call upon the authorities to take all necessary measures in order to arrest the perpetrators and bring them to justice,” KIS mentioned.
“Statements of condemnation are not enough! It is unacceptable that those responsible for the vandalism of memory remain at large,” it added.
Jewish memorials and cemeteries are sometimes vandalized in Greece, the place anti-Semitism is rampant.
The conservative authorities of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis consists of three ministers who had been previously senior members of a Greek far-right celebration.
There are 6,000 Jews in Greece now. An estimated 60,000 Greek Jews perished within the Holocaust – round 83% of the pre-war neighborhood.
