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Anti-Semitic Gang Destroys French Concentration Camp Mural


(Telegraph-UK) Henry Samuel - A mural painted by Jewish children imprisoned in a concentration camp near Perpignan, southern France, has been reduced to rubble, apparently with a chisel. In 1942, children at the camp painted a typical Swiss landscape on a wall of the infirmary, with joyful characters, musical instruments, cows, chalets, and pine-covered mountains. After being left abandoned for half a century, local school children discovered the fresco in 1999 under the whitewashed walls.
2004-06-11 00:00:00
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