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POLICE AND PROSECUTORS in Poland are investigating graffiti in English and German that appeared on multiple buildings at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, the site of the former Nazi German death camp.
A museum guard found the graffiti sprayed on nine wooden barracks in an area where there is no CCTV monitoring, museum authorities said.
Police said they were seeking the person or people responsible for vandalising a historic object, a crime that carries a prison sentence of up to eight years.
Court experts would determine if the content of the graffiti was anti-Semitic, according to Malgorzata Jurecka, a police spokesperson in the town of Oswiecim.
If they decided it was, the perpetrators could also face hate crime charges punishable by three years in prison.
Museum officials characterised some of the graffiti as anti-Semitic and echoing phrases used by Holocaust deniers. They have appealed to witnesses for help in the investigation.
Officials from the museum and Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial condemned the vandalism as an affront to the memory of the 1.1 million people who are believed to have died at Auschwitz-Birkenau, which Nazi Germans operated in occupied Poland between 1940 and 1945.
“This incident, at such a major and significant site of the atrocities of the Holocaust, constitutes an attack not only on the memory of the victims, but also on the survivors and any person with a conscience,” Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan said in a statement.
“It is also yet another painful reminder that more must be done to raise awareness about the Holocaust and to educate the public and the younger generation regarding the dangers of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial and distortion,” Dayan said.
Some 1.1 million people, mostly European Jews but also Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and others died in the gas chambers or from hunger, disease and forced labour at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The site was turned into a museum and memorial not long after the Second World War ended. In 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, it had more than two million visitors.
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That’s great news
Wonderful & badly needed news for Waterford city & the south-east region. This jobs boost & the fantastic work going on in the stunning Viking triangle especially the Waterford Treasures museum & hopefully with WIT being upgraded soon as FG/Lab promised before the election this gives Waterford the fair fighting chance that Ireland’s oldest city deserves.
Great news. Believe us actually Waterford Port.
Believe = Bellview
That’s right Eamon. Belview port is the name given to the new location of “the port of Waterford” when they relocated from the historic quays of Waterford city to a greenfield site about 5km downriver from the city on the north side/Kilkenny side of the river Suir. Great location there with loads of room for future potential growth.
A great boost for the South-East, badly needed!
Mighty news! Makes a change from the usual sour news :)
God help us there are some people who spend their bloody lives being miserable and try desperately to share that misery with as many people as they possibly can. Why don’t ye all meet up for a Misery Festival or see if you can get Moaning into the Olympics because if you do, you’re a model for gold.
Didnt Ahern say something along these lines?
@Paddy
You know us Irish, we love a good moan. It’s part of our culture ;-)
Ah sure I know. Doesn’t Joe Duffy make a living from it?
In reality it’s 76 jobs created. The rest are estimated.
That comment embodies everything that’s wrong with Ireland at the moment.
Why. That’s what glanbia said. 76 jobs. The rest might come in other areas. They are taking on 76. Not my problem you don’t like the facts. Stick to FG spin if you like fairy tales.
: Press release on Glanbia plant says 1,676 jobs to result from new Belview plant. Small print: 76 ‘directly employed’ 1,600 ‘indirect jobs’ aka this is what spin looks like.
Kev, wasting your breath on the FG rep there.
Don’t let the facts ruin a good story Kevin. Ur dead right 76 new jobs will be created at the plant the rest they are hoping will come at farm level as farmers expand production post quota in 2014, so in reality it will be individual farmers who create these jobs if they materialise and not glanbia.
Boys- when you don’t recognise the odd bit of indisputable good news, it just delegitimises your argument when you might actually have a point as you just come across as indiscriminately biased.
You might want to read the article in the Irish Examiner,no spin.76 jobs will be created directly by Glanbia(which any jobs is good news)a further 1676 it is hoped will be created off the back if the investment,farmers increasing output,suppliers and maintence.
So spin insult anyway you but Kev is correct in his post.
While there will be additional work for services to support this plant, they will not be ‘created’ but will either keep some companies from going under and provide startup initiatives for others. It’s a good result, but I agree with Kev that there is too much spin on the announcements today with over 95% of the headline jobs not real new opportunities for our beleaguered country.
Using these same rations when job losses are announced would be catastrophic, and unfortunately that ratio is closer to the truth.
Vincent/Bertie – spin will never dig you out of the hole, no matter how optimistic you try and convince others to be. Start with the truth and we’ll work from there.
Norman (Jon/weirdo/verbal/frank/)- who cares who delivers the jobs, whether its the farmers or the company. I don’t work for Glanbia so frankly I could care less who gets the credit. It’s a big investment & good news.
That’ll be more to do with beef quotas. But 76 jobs is good. Nothing wrong with that. But the maths remind me of an eggar bank manager trying to sell a mortgage a few years back.
Vincent in your rush to reply you didn’t read all my comment,i said any jobs is good news.But please don’t expect to post political propaganda and not be challenged on it.Btw stop calling me names my name is Norman only one account,unlike you i’ve never been banned.So again unlike you Vincent/Kevin/Paddy/Dilcos and probaly even Bozo i don’t need multiple id’s.
Norman/Jon/ Weirdo/Verbal/Frank- point to me please one political reference I made. No diverting. No misdirection. Point to one single reference to anything political. One reference will be fine. You complete and utter clown. I’m waiting….
Did i upset you Vinny boy,every thread you comment on, has on your behalf a political element.
Anyway did you meet your hero M Martin on Saturday?were you as giddy as a schoolgirl?
Oh dear, Norman/Jon/Weirdo/Verbal/Frank- unable to point to one single comment and embarrassing yourself by making it worse by resorting to the much predicted diversion. You’re such a lightweight.
Vincent never claimed to be anything other than an ordinary commentator on this site.But in what world do you inhabit that you feel you can tell me what to do?
But the fact that you feel you have to keep replying to my posts,let me know 1 thing i annoy you.Which is good so keep up the drivel and bile.
Till next time.
One last thing i notice you don’t deny membership of FF,well done you takes courage.
Norman- to be fair, I think we both know I look on the likes of you like I do the dirt on the bottom of my shoe.
So why did they shut down snowcream and kilmeaden cheese factorys
Good news however a poor company they are to work for!
Anybody who speaks like Yoda isn’t worth employing anyhow. Riddance good you are.
Poor or not they are still better to work for then being on the dole. It also means some families will not be separated by forced emigration in the search for work. End of the day its good news and very much welcomed at the moment.
Begrudgy
Why do you never mention that more people immigrate to Ireland than leave. Of those leading a size able percentage leave for voluntary rather than enforced reasons and the overall balance is hugely positive!
It is a very positive development, there are always serious risks in such an investment. Market, climate change, energy costs etc etc. but if you’re not moving forward in any industry you are going backwards. Admittedly two new giant milk powder plants in Ireland seems a bit excessive now but we need to make that giant leap forward. BTW it’s the Glanbia Cooperative farmers who are making the major investment through the 60% ownership of the Joint Venture SPV and the same farmers own 41% of the PLC partner in the JV and the 2cent per litre levy on the additional milk. Isn’t the cow a mighty animal?
Cheesy job there’s no whey I’d it
Great!
Any chance they could reduce the ridiculously high prices for their protein supplements?
Eat a steak. More protein in that than any supplement, and better absorbed by the body too
Forget the protein Alan. If you want to build pecs then get some roids.
Make a man a ye son!
true but its pretty dam expensive to get all your macros and nutrition strictly from food
Why themselves and Dairygold can’t link up on a single facility is beyond me. Both companies are duplicating investment when they have an offer of financial assistance from a state body for a joint venture. Complete lack of joined up thinking in the Irish dairy industry.
internationally they do under Irish Dairy Board under the trade name “Kerrygold” but this is mainly for cheese and butter. Around 10 or so yrs ago they used to produce milk powder aswell but I don’t know if this is still the case. Kerrygold is made in a no of different locations and companies.
I’m genuinely interested in the views of the red thumbers, would they care to comment? To be clear, I am not advocating a monopoly situation rather a joint processing facility which would attract significant cost savings for both entities
Strong thae
What they don’t tell you is the cuts they’re making elsewhere (10 redundancies last month in fonthill and more elsewhere)
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