MontevIdeo – A
Uruguayan Holocaust memorial rededicated last year was vandalized with antisemitic
graffiti minimizing the Holocaust.
“They have vandalized us again.
What’s going on?” Montevideo Mayor Carlos Varela tweeted along with
photos of the vandalized memorial. “We call for sanity, tolerance and peace,”
he added.
Unveiled in 1994, the site in
the country’s capital Montevideo has been hit several times in recent years by antisemitic
vandalism, but this time has been the most severe with the graffiti taking up a
larger area of the memorial.
Vandals used black paint to write slurs including “The Holocaust
of the Jewish people is the biggest lie in history,” “Only 300,000 Jews died
from typhus” and “Gas chambers were a fraud.”
