Published: 6 August 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Romanian officials condemn anti-Semitic vandalism of Elie Wiesel house (Reuters)
House of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel vandalised in Romania (AP/(Guardian)
Romanian police began an investigation on Saturday after antisemitic graffiti appeared on the house of the late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in north-west Romania. The probe was launched after comments in bright pink paint were scrawled overnight on Wiesel’s small house – a protected historical monument – in the town of Sighetu Marmației. One of the comments said Wiesel was “in hell with Hitler”.
Elie Wiesel’s childhood home vandalised with anti-Semitic graffiti (Times of Israel)
The childhood home of late Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel was vandalised with anti-Semitic graffiti overnight Friday, police in the Romanian town of Sighet told local media.
A police spokesperson on Saturday said an investigation into the vandalism had been opened immediately, and police were combing security camera footage from a nearby building in an effort to identify the perpetrators.
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Jewish teens enlisted to fight anti-Semitism in Germany (Ynet)
For years, the Jewish community in Germany relied on Holocaust survivors to be its ambassadors but lately young Jews are being encouraged to put a modern take on Jewish life in the country; Sophie Steiert and her friend Laura Schulmann, two girls from Berlin who want to change perceptions and challenge stereotypes as their community's 21st century ambassadors
PHOTO: Elie Wiesel's childhood home in Sighet, Romania was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti on August 3 (Screenshot via Realitatea.net)
