A mural dedicated to Anne Frank and Holocaust writer and survivor Primo Levi was vandalized again in the Italian city of Milan, in a new episode that reflects the worrying rise of antisemitism in Europe.
The work, created by contemporary artist AleXsandro Palombo on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is located on a wall of the Montello barracks and depicts Anne Frank and Primo Levi sitting face to face under a sky filled with yellow Star of David. The artistic intervention is accompanied by the phrase "Memory is no longer enough".
The attackers spray-painted antisemitic messages and damaged the mural
The perpetrators of the attack covered the original inscription with the phrase "Nazis Zionist colonizers" and also vandalized the face of Primo Levi, one of the main figures in the memory of the Shoah.
The incident generated strong condemnation from Israeli authorities and organizations linked to the preservation of Holocaust memory.
The Israeli ambassador to Italy, Jonathan Peled, condemned the attack and stated that "vandalizing a symbolic place of the memory of Anne Frank and Primo Levi means attacking the memory of the Shoah and our collective duty to never forget".
