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Nine windowless wooden barracks that each housed hundreds of prisoners at a time at an Auschwitz death camp were marked with antisemitic phrases and Holocaust-denying slogans on Tuesday, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum said.
The spray-painted vandalism was on buildings at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the Nazi-run extermination site in occupied Poland. About 1 million people were killed there, more than 90 percent of whom were Jews, according to the museum. About 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
Police have not yet made an arrest, though they are reviewing security tapes and analyzing the graffiti.
The museum said there were “two references to the Old Testament, often used by antisemites, and denial slogans.”
Several Holocaust museums and memorials in the United States have been defaced over the last two years in St. Petersburg, Fla.; Charleston, S.C.; Tulsa; Portland, Ore.; and Albuquerque.
The spray-painted vandalism was on buildings at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the Nazi-run extermination site in occupied Poland. About 1 million people were killed there, more than 90 percent of whom were Jews, according to the museum. About 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
Police have not yet made an arrest, though they are reviewing security tapes and analyzing the graffiti.
The museum said there were “two references to the Old Testament, often used by antisemites, and denial slogans.”
Several Holocaust museums and memorials in the United States have been defaced over the last two years in St. Petersburg, Fla.; Charleston, S.C.; Tulsa; Portland, Ore.; and Albuquerque.
