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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter

World’s oldest Holocaust museum adds ‘Gaza’ abuse to London collection on 90th anniversary

A metal sign for the Wiener Holocaust Library exhibition and reading room with smudged red paint spelling the word 'Gaza'
A metal sign that Wiener Holocaust Library staff brought inside after it was defaced in November. Photograph: Wiener Library

In the basement of the world’s oldest archive of the Holocaust, located in a townhouse on Russell Square in London, the latest artefact to join the Wiener Holocaust Library’s collection leans against a wall.

It is a metal sign that had been attached to the building’s front railings until early November when it was brought downstairs after staff arriving at work found it daubed with the word “Gaza” in red paint.

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