Horror as couple whose parents survived the Holocaust stumble on a fence covered in Nazi SWASTIKAS on a hike in Queensland
- Couple driving near Cooktown, Queensland, find fence covered in swastikas
- The couple had parents who had survived the Holocaust and had lost family
- The shocked 71-year-old woman said the vile symbols ‘turned her stomach’
A couple whose parents survived the Holocaust were left feeling nauseous after stumbling across a fence emblazoned with swastikas.
The couple were driving towards Mount Cook near Cooktown, in Queensland, when they discovered the home with the Nazi symbols on the front gate.
A photo taken by the shocked couple showed white pipes taped to the fence in the shape of a swastika, with two lightning bolts on either side.
Pillars on either side of the gate have red ornaments of the swastika with a monkey perched on top.
The 71-year-old woman, who did not give her name, said: ‘Both my mother, father and stepmother survived the horrors of the Holocaust and subsequently lost their parents, siblings, large extended families, friends, and their entire communities.
The couple were driving near Cooktown, in Queensland, when they discovered the home with the Nazi symbols on the front gate (pictured). An image showed white pipes taped to the fence in the shape of a swastika with two lightning bolts on either side
‘This sight turned my stomach and made me furious that in this day and age, we still have people advocating for genocide.
‘I love Australia, but I feel robbed because so many people must have seen this outrage and no one voiced their objections.
‘I believe that those who displayed this disgusting signage should be charged with incitement to murder.’
Dr Dvir Abramovich, Chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission, has been spearheading the efforts to ban public displays of swasitkas.
Dr Dvir Abramovich (pictured), Chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission, has been spearheading the efforts to ban public displays of swastikas
He said he didn’t understand how a symbol from Hitler’s Germany could be flown in Australia in 2020.
‘For a Holocaust survivor, this hellish sight is their worst fears realised and would be as scary as being threatened with a gun,’ Dr Abramovich said.
‘Anyone who believes in our nation’s shared values will be outraged by these signs that are dripping with venomous hate and are a call for murder.’
He called it ‘spine-chilling’ that there were ‘Final Solutionists’ who celebrate Hitley’s legacy.
Dr Abramovich called the move a punch to the gut to all Holocaust survivors.
‘We should remember that the stone-cold murderer who massacred 51 worshippers in the mosques in Christchurch and other white-supremacist killers were inspired by the very ideology represented by the swastikas exhibited on that gate,’ Dr Abramovich said.
‘Now is the time to act and to send the unmistakable message that Nazism has no place in Australia.
‘Once the Covid-19 crisis is over, I call on the QLD government to once and for all close the lid on this disgusting phenomenon and to outlaw the public display of any symbol of the Third Reich.’