The Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation is, among other things, responsible for the Bergen-Belsen Memorial. Now windows have been destroyed and a panel torn from the wall. The police are investigating.
Several window panes of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation in Celle have been destroyed. In addition, an information board was torn from the wall on Tuesday night, as the foundation announced.
According to its own statements, the foundation is the sponsor of the Bergen-Belsen memorial and the memorial in the Wolfenbüttel prison and promotes the entire memorial landscape in Lower Saxony.
According to the police, investigations have been started. Next weekend is the state party conference of the AfD in Celle. According to its own statements, the foundation has called for a counter-demonstration with other actors. According to the police, the background to the crime is still unclear.
Not the only case
The World Jewish Congress was appalled. This attack is particularly worrying because it is the latest in a series of such cases of vandalism at German Holocaust memorial sites and institutions, the international organization said in New York. She called for increased protection of the foundation and also of the Bergen-Belsen memorial.
Around 52,000 concentration camp prisoners and around 20,000 prisoners of war were driven to their deaths in Bergen-Belsen during the National Socialist era. The World Jewish Congress represents Jewish communities and organizations in 100 countries.
Source: Stern
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