Defaced Holocaust mural finds new home in Rome's Shoah Museum

The Shoah Museum successful Rome has acquired a portion by reserved modern popular creator aleXsandro Palombo aft it was defaced successful an evident act of antisemitism.

The mural, which depicts Liliana Segre and Sami Modiano, the past 2 Italian survivors of Auschwitz, was defaced aggregate times and adjacent erased by vandals.

Segre and Modiano are shown successful striped covering nether greenish bullet-proof vests with yellowish Stars of David connected them, and determination are adjacent representations of the serial numbers tattooed connected them by the Nazis. The perpetrators vandalized Segre and Modiano’s faces, arsenic good arsenic the stars connected their chests, but near the numbers connected their arms untouched.

"They took distant my face, my identity, they erased the yellowish star, but they near the fig tattooed connected my arm," Segre said.

aleXsandro Palombo's mural depicting Holocaust survivors Liliana Segre and Sami Modiano earlier it was vandalized (aleXsandro Palombo)

aleXsandro Palombo's mural depicting Holocaust survivors Liliana Segre and Sami Modiano aft it was vandalized (aleXsandro Palombo)

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Palombo yet reproduced the piece, and it is present portion of the museum’s imperishable collection.

"Art is the highest look of freedom, and repeatedly attacking a enactment that portrays 2 survivors of Auschwitz highlights however the precise worth of ideology and each our freedoms is successful danger," Palombo said successful a statement. "The motion of courageousness and absorption of the Shoah Museum of Rome and the Italian Jewish assemblage is simply a large and precious acquisition successful civilization for each of us, who responded to the antisemitic violence and hatred of these caller forms of societal and taste coercion with a almighty enactment of the Risorgimento."

Palombo has made respective pieces honoring the Holocaust, and his different works person not been spared from vandalism.

A portion entitled "Arbeit macht frei," which shows Hungarian writer and Holocaust subsister Edith Bruck wrapped successful an Israeli emblem was besides defaced, with overmuch of the emblem being erased. The rubric of this mural is the aforesaid operation the Nazis enactment connected the gates of Auschwitz, and it translates to "work makes you free."

Bruck told Italian paper La Stampa that she was saddened but not amazed by the vandalism, saying that "antisemitism is simply a tsunami."

The mural of Bruck has besides been acquired by the Shoah Museum successful Rome.

aleXsandro Palombo's mural of Hungarian writer and Holocaust subsister Edith Bruck earlier and aft it was defaced by vandals (aleXsandro Palombo)

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Another 1 of Palombo’s pieces that was vandalized was entitled "Halt! Stoj!," which depicted Segre, Modiano and Burk alongside Pope Francis, who is outfitted with a transverse and a motion speechmaking "antisemitism is everywhere." The 4 are depicted arsenic Simpsons characters, a communal motif for Palombo. While the representation of the pope was not damaged, vandals defaced the Stars of David connected the 3 Holocaust survivors.

aleXsandro Palombo's mural of 3 Holocaust survivors and Pope Francis earlier and aft it was vandalized. (aleXsandro Palombo)

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Palombo, a modern popular creator and activist, utilized popular civilization references successful his artwork, including celebrities and cartoon characters from the Simpsons and Disney. One of his astir iconic works is the "Simpsons deported to Auschwitz," which shows Marge, Homer, Maggie, Bart and Lisa earlier and aft the attraction camp, referencing the emaciated authorities of Holocaust survivors liberated from Nazi camps.