{"id":118942,"date":"2025-02-05T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118942"},"modified":"2025-02-05T13:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:27:47","slug":"05-00-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118942","title":{"rendered":"New Mural in Milan Against Antisemitism Vandalized, Stars of David Again Defaced"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>New Mural in Milan Against Antisemitism Vandalized, Stars of David Again Defaced<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The defaced mural \u201cHalt! Stoj!\u201d by AleXsandro Palombo. Photo: Provided<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Two more murals by Italian contemporary artist aleXsandro Palombo in Milan, Italy, that draw attention to antisemitism and the Holocaust were vandalized shortly after they debuted on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, The Algemeiner<\/em> has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n

In honor of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Jan. 27, Palombo created two large murals that focused on antisemitism and denial, and paid tribute to three of the last living Italian survivors of the Holocaust and the Auschwitz concentration camp. All the Stars of David on the two street artworks were defaced by vandals.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first mural, the large blue Star of David has been removed from the Israeli flag draped over the shoulders of Italian-Hungarian writer and poet Edith Bruck as she stands under the words \u201cArbeit macht frei\u201d<\/em> (\u201cWork makes you free\u201d), which is the motto featured on the main gate of Auschwitz. The mural is aptly titled \u201cArbeit macht frei.<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Palombo\u2019s second mural features Bruck as well as Italian Senator Liliana Segre<\/a> and Italian author Sami Modiano. All three Holocaust survivors are depicted as characters from \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d \u2014 a popular style for Palombo \u2014 while dressed in striped concentration camp prisoner uniforms. They also wear bulletproof vests that have yellow Stars of David on them as they stand under the words \u201cArbeit macht frei.<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To the left of the three Holocaust survivors is a sign that says \u201cHalt! Stoj!\u201d with a skull and crossbones symbol, which is seen throughout the Auschwitz concentration camp. Pope Francis is additionally portrayed with a sign on his chest that reads \u201cantisemitism is everywhere\u201d while with his hand he shakes a bell, to warn the world about the spread of antisemitism. All the Stars of David on the mural \u2014 titled \u201cHalt! Stoj!\u201d \u2014 have also been removed by vandals.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The defaced mural \u201cArbeit macht frei\u201d by AleXsandro Palombo. Photo: Provided<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The defaced mural \u201cHalt! Stoj!\u201d by AleXsandro Palombo. Photo: Provided<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Last year, another mural by Palombo about antisemitism and the Holocaust was repeatedly defaced<\/a> in Milan in Novemberand then completed painted over<\/a> by antisemites in December. He has since recreated that defaced mural, and it was recently acquired<\/a> by the Shoah Museum in Rome, where it will be a part of the institution\u2019s permanent collection. It is now on display in front of the ancient complex Portico d\u2019Ottavia in the historic Jewish ghetto of Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe repeated attacks on works of street art dedicated to the memory [of the Holocaust] and portraying survivors of Auschwitz not only cause infinite bitterness, but also show how the value of democracy and all our freedoms are in danger,\u201d Palombo said in a statement. \u201cSegre wanted the word \u2018indifference\u2019 to become a warning, the key to understanding the cause of evil, and it is clear that those who continue to be indifferent to these repeated antisemitic outrages become accomplices to this terrible social, civil and cultural drift.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mario Venezia, president of the Shoah Museum in Rome, described the vandalism of Palombo\u2019s new murals as \u201cdespicable.\u201d She said the museum is working with Palombo to recreate the defaced artworks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEdith Bruck, Liliana Segre, and Sami Modiano, with their tireless commitment to dialogue, have always chosen the path of constructive confrontation, speaking to thousands of young people and interacting with civil and religious institutions. And yet the acrimony of the haters has struck again, defacing the works that the artist aleXsandro Palombo had dedicated to them,\u201d she said. \u201cThis time, too, we will not remain silent. We are already working to restore what has been violated, forcefully reaffirming our message. We do so to honor the survivors, to send a clear signal to those who attack the memory [of the Holocaust] and to all those young people who, with passion and respect, support its value and legacy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Palombo has included a \u201cSimpson\u201d reference in many of his artworks. For a mural created at the Iranian Consulate in Milan in 2022, he created a lookalike of Marge Simpson but had her iconic hair cut in solidarity with Mahsa Amini<\/a>, the 22-year-old Iranian woman who died while in custody of Iran\u2019s morality police for not wearing a hijab correctly in accordance with the country\u2019s Islamic laws. Carolyn Omine, the executive producer of \u201cThe Simpsons,\u201d shared images<\/a> of the mural on X.<\/span><\/p>\n

Palombo has regularly created social-political art throughout his 30-year career. In 2015, he created a series of works titled \u201cNever Again, The Simpsons deported to Auschwitz\u201d and painted part of the series on the walls of the Shoah Memorial in Milan in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2023. That mural has been defaced five times, including once when vandals wrote \u201cW Hitler\u201d and \u201cF\u2014k Israel\u201d over the artwork.<\/span><\/p>\n

In October 2024, Palombo\u2019s mural that highlighted Vlada Patapov \u2014 a survivor of the Nova music festival massacre that took place during the Hamas-led terrorist attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, \u2014 was also defaced<\/a> by vandals. In November 2023, a month after the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Palombo painted a mural<\/a> that featured Holocaust victim and teenage diarist Anne Frank next to a girl from the Gaza Strip. He made a second mural of a boy from Gaza dressed as a Hamas terrorist. The boy stands next to an adult terrorist and together they point their guns at a young Jewish boy from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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