A monument to Holocaust victims in Hyde Park was vandalized over the weekend. Members of the Jewish community gathering for the annual commemoration service discovered Sunday that white paint had been poured over the granite block set in a grove of trees.
The vandals left a placard with the word “Perdition.” That was the title of a play alleging that Zionists collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. Its scheduled opening at the Royal Court Theater in London’s West End last month was cancelled after historians branded it a travesty and the Jewish community protested.
Memorial services were conducted at the monument Sunday. They consisted of readings from the Psalms and from the works of Itzhak Katznelson, a poet of the Warsaw Ghetto who perished at Auschwitz.
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