“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
Yad Vashem's Response to Graffiti Discovered in the Yad Vashem Campus
11.06.2012
On 11 June, ten pieces of hateful graffiti in Hebrew were discovered in the open campus of Yad Vashem, a large part scrawled across the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto Square monument.
Yad Vashem has released an official statement condemning the act.
"This is a difficult and painful day for me and the staff of Yad Vashem," said Avner Shalev, Chairman of Yad Vashem. "I am shocked and stunned by this callous expression of burning hatred against Zionists and Zionism. This is a worrying act that crosses a red line. I have reported it to the Minister of Education Gideon Sa'ar, who also expressed his bewilderment. I also spoke to Yad Vashem Council Chairman Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, who joined me in expressing his concern over this grave deed."
The particularly disturbing slurs included poisonous attacks on Zionism. The police are currently investigating.