Vandals scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti on the childhood home of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel — including one obscene comment that said the Nobel Peace Prize winner was “lying in hell with Hitler.”
Romanian police launched a probe Saturday after Wiesel’s small white and periwinkle house — a protected historical monument and museum — was defaced with pink spray paint overnight in the town of Sighetu Mamatiei.
Other obscene words sprayed on the facade of the home included “Jewish Nazi,” “pedophile” and “public toilet.”
Investigators said the incident was caught on camera and that they have a list of suspects, CNN reported.
Wiesel was born in the home in 1928 and deported to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz from there in May 1944 with the rest of his family and 14,000 other Jews from the town, formerly called Sighet. His mother and younger sister died there while he and his two older sisters survived.
He went on to write dozens of books, including the classic “Night” in 1956, by drawing on his experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. His house was turned into a small museum about local Jewish culture in 2002, according to Haaretz.
The Romanian Group for Monitoring and Fighting Anti-Semitism called the act of vandalism an affront to the “memory of Elie Wiesel, the memory of the Holocaust victims and the souls of Holocaust survivors.”
The Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania called for a thorough investigation, saying the country’s president and government have vowed to fight anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.
Wiesel died at his New York City home in 2016 at age 87.
With Post wires



