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Behind the Aegis

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Wed Jun 5, 2019, 12:34 AM Jun 2019

(Jewish Group) Vienna outdoor exhibition of Holocaust survivors cut up with a knife in the third att

A prominent public art installation in Vienna featuring large portraits of Holocaust survivors was badly damaged overnight on Sunday after an unknown assailant slashed the pictures with a knife.

Photographs published on Monday morning showed many of the Holocaust survivors’ faces either cut out or torn in two.

The attack comes a week after “Against Forgetting” — created by Luigi Toscano in conjunction with ESRA, Vienna’s counselling service for Holocaust survivors — was tagged with pro-Nazi and antisemitic graffiti.

That graffiti included a swastika and the words, “1 Jesus = 6,000,000 Jews.”

The knife attack marks the third time that the portraits have been defiled since they were installed on Vienna’s Ringstrasse at the end of April.

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(Jewish Group) Vienna outdoor exhibition of Holocaust survivors cut up with a knife in the third att (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jun 2019 OP
Really f**ked up AH still_one Jun 2019 #1
Simply grotesque. JudyM Jun 2019 #2
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