Vandals topple Holocaust monument made by Auschwitz survivor
Police launch an investigation into vandalized statue of a figure playing the flute, sculpted in honor of the six million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis.
The statue—located in the city’s Har HaBanim garden atop of a hill overlooking the whole of the Dan region—had been built by a sculpture artist Ruth Schteiff Roger, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
"I woke up this morning to these horrifying images," said Ramat Gan Mayor Carmel Shama-Hacohen. "I immediately arrived in the area to witness the damage firsthand. We’ve already decided to allocate funds to repair the statue and renovate the entire monument.”
Ramat Gan Municipality said in a statement that surveillance cameras will be installed at the site in order to prevent similar incidents from occuring.
"Following the destruction of the monument, dedicated to those who perished in the Holocaust, the municipality decided to comprehensively restore the monument,” said the statement.
