Romania probes anti-Semitic graffiti on Elie Wiesel's house

Romanian police have launched an investigation Saturday after anti-Semitic graffiti appeared on the house of late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in northwest Romania.

Comments were scrawled overnight Friday on Wiesel's small house—a protected historical monument used as a museum—in the town of Sighetu Marmatiei.

One of the comments called Wiesel a "Jew Nazi" who was "in hell with Hitler," another dubbed the house as "Public toilets of an anti-Semitic pedophile," and a third said Wiesel was "f***ing Merkel, Trump and Putin."  

The Romanian group for Monitoring and Fighting Anti-Semitism called it an act of vandalism against the "memory of Elie Wiesel, the memory of the Holocaust victims and the souls of the Holocaust survivors." Along with 14,000 Jews, Wiesel and his family were deported in May 1944 to Auschwitz from the town.

His mother and younger sister died there while he and his two older sisters survived. Wiesel died in 2016 at the age of 87.

Atilla Somfalvi contributed to this report.

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