A Montreal mother was shocked to discover hateful Nazi graffiti at a local playground, frequented by Jewish families.
The slogan “arbeit macht frei” — which appears at the entrances of Auschwitz and a number of other Nazi concentration camps — was spraypainted on a playset.
Shana Cling made the discovery while at Alphonse-Telesphore-Lépine park on de Gaspé Ave. with her two-year-old daughter on Wednesday morning.
“It was really horrible…I couldn’t believe I was seeing this in this neighborhood,” Cling told CJAD Radio. “This is a park where a lot of Hasidic families go. Just the fact that someone would do this at a children’s park was very upsetting.”
Cling said she reported the graffiti at a local borough office. She was pleased with the response from the borough rep she spoke with. “He took it very seriously, and he said he was going to treat it as an urgent situation and made a phone call immediately,” she said.
By early afternoon, the city still hadn’t sent a crew, but some of Cling’s Facebook friends had advised her to get in touch with well-known graffiti-buster Corey Fleischer, who arrived at the park by 1:30 p.m. with his power washer to clean up the mess. He posted video from the scene on his Facebook page.
(Nat Golden – YWN)
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