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| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: January 30, 2007 |
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A TimesOnline article reports that a Holocaust memorial built in Berlin in 2005 has been vandalized and targeted for numerous anti-Semitic attacks:
"The German authorities were preparing for criticism from the Jewish community after it was revealed that a Holocaust memorial in Berlin was being used as a public lavatory by tourists and by neo-Nazi sympathizers.
"The managers of the memorial, which attracts 3.5 million visitors a year, have tried to play down the scandal. 'This just belongs to the teething problems of any new monument,' Uwe Neumaerker, of the Memorial Foundation, said.
"The defacing of Jewish memorial areas in Germany by followers of the far Right has become a widespread problem that is acknowledged rarely. On the eve of Holocaust Day at the weekend a group of youths set fire to a restored railway carriage -- symbolizing the deportation of the Jews -- in Lower Saxony. In the eastern German port of Stralsund, concrete was poured over a memorial for a Jewish family, the Keibel-Cohns." |
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