Street art in Milan dedicated to three
Holocaust survivors - writer and poet Edith Bruck, Life Senator
Liliana Segre and Sami Modiano - made by contemporary artist
aleXsandro Palombo to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz has been vandalized, the artist said
Monday.
"Repeatedly attacking artworks dedicated to Memory that portray
Auschwitz survivors doesn't only bring infinite bitterness, but
highlights how the value itself of democracy and of all our
freedoms is in danger", said Palombo.
"Those who continue to remain indifferent when faced with these
repeated anti-Semitic attacks are accomplices of this terrible
drift", he added.
The artist listed in a statement all the murals that have been
vandalized, including his first artwork portraying Bruck -
'Arbeit macht frei' - where a large blue Star of David was
removed with paint from the Israeli flag while in his second
work portraying Bruck, Segre, Modiano as well as Pope Francis,
all the yellow Stars of David symbolizing exclusion and the
Holocaust massacre were cancelled.
Last year, street art portraying Segre and Modiano called
"Anti-Semitism, History Repeating" was removed.
Palombo recalled that the mural, located in Milan's Piazzale
Loreto, was vandalized on November 11 with the Stars of David
sprayed with paint and the face of the Life Senator disfigured.
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