The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned, on Friday, November 15, an act of vandalism against the monument to the heroes of the Warsaw ghetto uprising of 1943, perpetrated by unknown persons who painted it red and black.
A year after invading Poland, in 1940, the Nazis closed a district of Warsaw and crowded almost half a million Jews into three square kilometers to exterminate them through starvation and disease, and deported some of them to gas chambers. The insurrection broke out on April 19, 1943. It was the largest and best-known event of Jewish urban resistance against the Nazis during World War II.
“Last night the Warsaw Ghetto monument was vandalized”Israel’s ambassador to Poland, Yacov Livne, wrote early Friday in a message on the X social network, accompanied by a photograph of the stained monument.
“In-depth investigation”
An Agence France-Presse photographer sent to the scene observed that workers were removing the paint from this monument located on the grounds of the former ghetto, in front of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, not far from the center of the Polish capital. .
Yacov Livne called on the Polish authorities to “Condemn this act, find the guilty and bring them to justice”. The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned “firmly the act of vandalism” committed against him “symbol of the memory of the victims of the Shoah and of the Jewish resistance against German Nazism”
According to the press release published on the ministry’s website, “Such acts constitute an attack on the history and values that unite us as a society”. Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak announced a “exhaustive investigation” in it “desecration” of the monument.
This act has not been claimed.
