Athens Holocaust Memorial vandalized again

Via Minos Moissis & CFCA

The Holocaust Memorial in Athens, close to the Synagogue, was vandalized on Saturday.

The inscription in Elie Wiesel’s words at the Holocaust Memorial  was stripped by strangers, disappeared in two of its three tracks with the meaningful text in Greek and French.

The Jewish community of Athens made a public appeal (see above) if someone saw something and has filed a complaint at the police station.

Holocaust survivor and famous author Elie Wiesel wrote those lines especially for the Athens memorial, they are engraved on a plaque at the entrance of the park in 3 languages:

Pause awhile as you pass by, close your eyes and remember.
Remember the time when here,
or near here, men, women and children- our own fellow creatures- congregated in peace and trust,
only to be arrested, humiliated, deported and murdered in the
Camps that shall forever shame our Civilization.
Because they were Jewish, six million people were denied the right to be free, happy, to hope, to smile, to pray, and finally, the right to live.
Remember them, their anguish and their death. Do not recoil at such horror; do not descend into despair at man’s inhumanity to man.
Just remember.
For by remembering we honour their deaths, and we save them from dying again, in oblivion.

[via koshergreece.com]