A monument in Krakow in memory of Jews who perished during Nazi occupation during WW II has been desecrated on the eve of the 67th anniversary of the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto.
Staff from the Board of Municipal Infrastructure and Transport in Krakow worked all night to remove “Jews out” and “Hitler was good” scrawled in red paint on the monument at the site of the Plaszow concentration camp, now in the suburb of Podgorze.
Police received a notification of the vandalism from city guards on Saturday afternoon. "On-site examinations are being carried out to assertain exactly when the incident happened," Anna Zbroja, spokesperson from the local police press office said.
Vice-President of the Auschwitz Council Stefan Wilkanowicz told Polskie Radio that the desecration on the even of the anniversary was “no coincidence”.
Organizers of the March of Remembrance which takes place every year on the ghettoes liquidation by the Nazis say that the event will still go ahead this year.
The march to the Memorial at Plaszow is held annually in memory of a forced march ordered by the Nazis in 1943 to the concentration and labour camp - described in the novel and movie Schindler’s List - where around 17,000 prisoners were kept under “slave labour” conditions. (pg)