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TIME OF ISRAEL – A 19-year-old Israeli was detained at the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum after he was caught urinating on a memorial commemorating the victims of the camp.

He was questioned for several hours and released on Wednesday after voluntarily accepting a fine as punishment, according to local reports. The fine reportedly was $1,500.

According to Polish law those who desecrate a monument or other public place commemorating a historical event or a person can be punished with a fine or imprisonment.

The young Israeli was detained on Wednesday at about 1 p.m. According to witnesses, he urinated on a monument located near the ruins of the crematoria in the former Birkenau camp. The action was noticed by the museum’s guide who notified museum guards, who in turn called the police.

Auschwitz Museum spokesman Bartosz Bartyzel said he did not recall a similar event involving an Israeli citizen.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that the teenager was released after being questioned for several hours, the Hebrew-language Ynet website reported.

The Auschwitz Museum also confirmed the incident, calling it “very regrettable,” the Israeli report added.

 

Last year, a group of anti-war activists slaughtered a sheep, stripped naked and chained themselves to the gate of the Auschwitz memorial. They were sentenced in January to prison terms and fines.

5 thoughts on “Israeli teen fined for urinating on memorial at Auschwitz”
  1. If he hadn’t been caught, it would have been blamed on a Gentile, and labeled an anti — “semitic” hate crime.
    If a Gentile had been caught doing that, he wouldn’t have only been fined $50,000, he also would spend the next five or ten years in prison.

  2. The Auschwitz Museum also confirmed the incident, calling it “very regrettable”

    and what would they have called it had it been a gentile?
    probably, “very fortunate” because it would have opened cash registers all across europe.

  3. The picture tells a lie,. If I remember correctly there is no iron banner at the gate to Auschwitz saying “Lampshades and Soap” but “Arbeit Macht Frei”. It deeply bothers me if lies are told in words or pictures.

  4. jeez gunther, sounds like you have a real deep sense of humor.
    maybe someone pissed on the original and the iron rusted into the new spelling.
    for sure more plausible than wiesel’s blood geysers … wait a minute, blood rusts, right? both are red due to the same oxidation of irony …

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