The Shoah Museum in Rome has acquired a play from the contemporary pop artist reserved Alexsandro Palombo after being degraded in an apparent act of anti -Semitism.
The mural, which represents Liliana Segre and Sami Modiano, the last two Italian survivors of Auschwitz, was degraded several times and even erased by vandals.
Segre and Modiano are represented in clothes striped under green vests with the balls with yellow stars of David, and there are even representations of the serial numbers tattooed on them by the Nazis. The authors vandalized the faces of Segre and Modiano, as well as the stars on their chest, but left the numbers on their intact arms.
“They removed my face, my identity, they erased the yellow star, but they left the number tattooed on my arm,” said Segre.
The wall of Alexsandro Palombo representing the survivors of the Holocaust Liliana Segre and Sami Modiano before being vandalized (Alexsandro Palombo)
The Murale of Alexsandro Palombo representing the survivors of the Holocaust Liliana Segre and Sami Modiano after being vandalized (Alexsandro Palombo)
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Palombo finally reproduced the room, and it is now part of the museum’s permanent collection.
“Art is the highest expression of freedom, and on several occasions a work that depicts two survivors of Auschwitz underlines how the very value of democracy and all our freedoms is in danger,” said Palombo in a press release. “The gesture of courage and resistance of the Shoah museum in Rome and the Italian Jewish community is a great and precious lesson in civilization for all of us, who answered the anti -Semitic violence And the hatred of these new forms of social and cultural terrorism with a powerful action of Risorgimento. “”
Palombo made several pieces in honor of the Holocaust, and his other works were not spared vandalism.
A play entitled “Arbeit Macht Frei”, which shows that the Hungarian writer and survivor of the Holocaust Edith Bruck wrapped in an Israeli flag was also degraded, a large part of the erased flag. The title of this wall is the same sentence as the Nazis have put on the doors of Auschwitz, and this translates into “work makes you free”.
Bruck said to the Italian newspaper The Stampa that it was saddened but not surprised by vandalism, saying that “anti -Semitism is a tsunami”.
The Bruck wall was also acquired by the Shoah Museum in Rome.
The Murale of Alexsandro Palombo of the Hungarian writer and survivor of the Holocaust Edith Bruck before and after being degraded by Vandals (Alexsandro Palombo)
Another parts of Palombo that was vandalized was entitled “Halt! Stoj!,” Who represented Segre, Modiano and Burk alongside Pope Francis, who is equipped with a cross and a sign reading “Anti -Semitism is everywhere.” The four are represented as Simpsons characters, a common pattern for Palombo. While the image of the pope was not damaged, the vandals degraded the stars of David on the three Holocaust survivors.
The Murale of Alexsandro Palombo of three survivors of the Holocaust and Pope Francis before and after his vandalization. (Alexsandro Palombo)
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Palombo, a contemporary pop artist and activist, used references of pop culture in his works, including celebrities and cartoons from cartoons and Disney. One of his most emblematic works is “Simpsons expelled from Auschwitz”, which show Marge, Homer, Maggie, Bart and Lisa before and after the concentration camp, referring to the emaciated state of the Holocaust survivors released from Nazi camps.
