Poland: “how can you look at a swastika and not care?"

Poles form Facebook group to wipe away anti-Semitism - literally

To date some 80 pictures of racist daubing have been posted, mostly of anti-Semitic messages. One, for example, read “Auschwitz-Birkenau” and another, “Jews, out!” But there has also been anti-Islamic graffiti. Some of the slogans have been removed; others are still waiting for good people to come paint them over. 

One of the organizers is Kalina Lewandowska, 28, who was born and raised in Warsaw and works for a large advertising agency. She was disturbed by the indifference of many Poles to the offensive slogans scrawled on local buildings. 

“People have stopped seeing them. They become less aware and less sensitive,” she says. “But how can you look at a swastika and not care? It's terrible, and you find it in so many places – in cities, towns and villages across Poland,” she told Haaretz by telephone this week.

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