Anti-Semitism in Lubin
In October 2012, Lublin’s neo-Nazi once again became active. This was the second time that they painted swastikas on the car of Dr. Dariusz Libionka. Dr. Libionka is a recognized historian of the Holocaust and an employee of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences. As an expert court witness, he has issued opinions for the court in cases against neo-Nazis. In September last year, someone painted a swastika on his car. A few months earlier, stones and firecrackers were thrown at his home. Unfortunately, police investigations in these cases ended in nothing.
The devastation of Libionka’s car is one of a series of attacks against people dealing with Jewish issues in Lublin. Previously, among the targets of attacks was Tomasz Pietrasiewicz - founder and director of the Grodzka Gate - NN Theatre Centre, which documents the memory of Lublin’s Jews. A few months earlier, posters of the Grodzka Gate with the flag of Israel and the information "Ministry of Truth" were hung out on bus stops and the staircase of the house, in which he lives. On these posters Pietrasiewicz was presented as Lord Voldemort, an evil wizard from the Harry Potter series. Next to him was the NN Theatre logo with the postscript: "Teatr NN Nerwica Natręctw" ("NN Theatre Obsessional Neurosis"). In the spring, in different parts of the city posters were hung out with an invitation to a fictitious NN Theatre performance entitled "Isaac’s streets, Srul’s tenement houses, i.e. how to plunder Poland in the majesty of the law." Next to them there was a portrait of Pietrasiewicz and the Star of David. A dummy bomb was also planted at the director’s apartment and bricks painted with swastikas where thrown in. The perpetrators were not identified.
Source:
Jewish.org.pl, 22.10.2012, Lublin. Kolejne swastyki (Lublin. Swastikasagaine), http://www.jewish.org.pl/index.php/pl/antysemityzm-mainmenu-72/5184-lublin-tolejne-swastyki.html, Accessed on 05.12.2012.
