Indiana Holocaust Museum Apparently Torched

[L@mplighterM]

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A fire destroyed a museum founded by a Holocaust survivor early Tuesday and arson is suspected, a museum official said.

The fire was reported at the CANDLES Museum (search) just after midnight and gutted the building, a former printing plant south of the city's downtown.

"The police said there was a brick that had broken the main glass door, and they threw something in there that was an accelerant," said Mary Wright, the museum's education director. "Even the display cases were practically burned down to the ground."

Someone also wrote "Remember Timmy McVeigh" on a wall. Timothy McVeigh (search), the Oklahoma City bomber, was executed at a federal prison outside Terre Haute in 2001.

Terre Haute police referred calls to the Fire Department, which did not return messages.

Doug Garrison, a spokesman for the FBI in Indianapolis, said his agency is not involved in the fire investigation, but could be asked to assist.

CANDLES stands for Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Experiments Survivors. The museum was founded in 1995 by Holocaust survivor Eva Kor. It houses artifacts from Auschwitz (search) and documents relating to Dr. Josef Mengele (search).

Kor and an identical twin sister, Miriam Mozes Zeiger, were subjected to Mengele's genetic experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Her sister died of cancer in 1993.

Kor did not return phone messages left Tuesday at her home and office.

Wright said the museum had never received any threats.

"People think this doesn't happen in nice little places like Terre Haute, Indiana," she said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103430,00.html

[RichardP]

Originally posted by L@mplighterM
Tuesday, November 18, 2003

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A fire destroyed a museum founded by a Holocaust survivor early Tuesday and arson is suspected, a museum official said.

The fire was reported at the CANDLES Museum (search) just after midnight and gutted the building, a former printing plant south of the city's downtown.

"The police said there was a brick that had broken the main glass door, and they threw something in there that was an accelerant," said Mary Wright, the museum's education director. "Even the display cases were practically burned down to the ground."

Someone also wrote "Remember Timmy McVeigh" on a wall. Timothy McVeigh (search), the Oklahoma City bomber, was executed at a federal prison outside Terre Haute in 2001.

Terre Haute police referred calls to the Fire Department, which did not return messages.

Doug Garrison, a spokesman for the FBI in Indianapolis, said his agency is not involved in the fire investigation, but could be asked to assist.

CANDLES stands for Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Experiments Survivors. The museum was founded in 1995 by Holocaust survivor Eva Kor. It houses artifacts from Auschwitz (search) and documents relating to Dr. Josef Mengele (search).

Kor and an identical twin sister, Miriam Mozes Zeiger, were subjected to Mengele's genetic experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Her sister died of cancer in 1993.

Kor did not return phone messages left Tuesday at her home and office.

Wright said the museum had never received any threats.

"People think this doesn't happen in nice little places like Terre Haute, Indiana," she said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103430,00.html

A never ending cycle of hatred... be it Islam, neo-Nazis or just everyday anti-semites, it all comes out the same... I want to puke!!

[RichardP]

Originally posted by RichardP
A never ending cycle of hatred... be it Islam, neo-Nazis or just everyday anti-semites, it all comes out the same... I want to puke!!

Though, this may seem to some a less significant report in the grand scheme of things; it isn't. It took place in our own backyard and to me at least, is reflective of the sickness, which exists here as well as everywhere else. I don't understand the little reponse to this thread. Would there have been a keener interest, if this had happened in France, Belgium or Germany? Perhaps, I am wrong but I kept checking the tags on this thread.