Antisemitic vandals struck multiple Holocaust memorials and residential buildings across Berlin in recent weeks, including a Tuesday evening attack on a monument commemorating 32,000 Jews deported to Nazi concentration and death camps.

Graffiti tags were spray-painted on the Deportation Monument at the Putlitz Bridge, which marks the site where Jews were loaded onto trains from the Moabit station during the Holocaust. Berlin Police confirmed the defacement.

The incident was one of several. Last Tuesday, a stele at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe was found covered in green graffiti with inflammatory content. On April 26, antisemitic graffiti appeared on apartment buildings in the Berlin-Pankow borough, including the phrases “Kill all Jews” and “Only a dead Jew is a good Jew,” along with a swastika, according to Israeli Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor and the Judische Allgemeine.

The Department for Research and Information on Antisemitism Berlin, known as RIAS Berlin, said it considers such attacks “targeted antisemitic property damage” that go beyond defacement.

“Such incidents are directed against the memorial sites themselves, but also deliberately disrupt the commemoration and remembrance of the victims of the Shoah,” the organization said.

The Putlitz Bridge monument has been a repeated target. It was splashed with white paint and covered in parcel tape in August, and in November 2024 a memorial wreath was thrown over a railway railing and candles were destroyed. A bomb damaged the site in 1992; it was restored the following year.

RIAS Berlin, set to release its annual antisemitism report next Wednesday, recorded 89 incidents at memorial sites in 2024 and 61 so far in 2025.

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