Tradie leaves racist note to son of murdered Auschwitz parents over Melbourne parking dispute
EXCLUSIVE: Read the racist handwritten note a tradie left with a man whose parents were murdered in Auschwitz – after being summoned to park across his driveway
- A tradition lashed out at ‘Jews’ for taking up parking spaces
- The tradie had parked his car across from a resident’s driveway
- Resident traditionally left a note calling for the selfish act
- Tradie responded with vicious accusations about Jews
A trader calling for illegal parking in a residential driveway in Melbourne has responded in the most vile of ways.
The trafficker had blocked access to the elderly couple’s home, which is a stone’s throw from Elsternwick’s Adass Jewish School – southeast of Melbourne’s CBD.
Stunned by the tradie’s reckless disdain, the couple placed a note on the windshield of his car that read, “Why are you parked across from our driveway?” How selfish can you be?’
A trader left this vile letter on a resident’s windshield whose driveway he’d blocked in the heart of Melbourne’s largest Jewish community
Hours later, the couple were left stunned and frightened when they found the letter on the windshield of their own car, which was parked in an open garage on the property.
“Because the Jews took up all the parking spaces and I had a job to do,” the note read.
The couple, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, are unfortunately no strangers to racist attacks.
The couple’s parents had fallen victim to the Nazis during World War II, and one of them’s parents and siblings were all murdered at Auschwitz – the infamous Nazi extermination camp.
Dr. Dvir Abramovich, chairman of the anti-defamation commission, denounced the trafficker’s racist attack on the couple.
“Antisemitism rears its ugly head in the most unusual of circumstances, and here is another example that singling out people of Jewish faith is becoming the norm in Melbourne,” he told Daily Mail Australia on Tuesday.
“Instead of admitting that he made a mistake by blocking residents’ driveways, this individual chose to go to the playbook of racism and blame the Jewish community for the lack of parking.”
The trader’s car blocked elderly residents of Elsternwick from leaving their homes
Dr. Dvir Abramovich, chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission, is alarmed by the continued attacks on the Jewish community
Elsternwick is home to one of Australia’s largest Jewish communities and is home to the Jewish Holocaust Centre, the Kadimah Jewish Cultural Center and National Library and the Elsternwick Classic Cinema.
“I wonder if any of his clients, who are Jewish, realize that he harbors such negative and demeaning feelings about them,” said Dr. Abramovich.
“It’s no wonder this couple, who lost family in the Holocaust at the hands of the Nazis, are shocked and scared after this man walked into their garage and left this intimidating note.”
The sickening incident is the latest in a long list of anti-Semitic attacks against Melbourne’s Jewish community.
In December, Victorian Prime Minister Daniel Andrews banned the display of the Nazi symbol and is in talks with Jewish leaders to ban the Nazi salute.
Dr. Abramovich said such incidents damage and traumatize the Jewish community as a whole, not just the individual victims.
“At a time of rampant anti-Semitism spreading like wildfire across the country, any expression of religious intolerance is completely unacceptable and a direct affront to the values of inclusion and belonging that are fundamental to our multicultural way of life. ‘, he said. .
THE HORRORS OF AUSCHWITZ
Auschwitz-Birkenau, near the town of Oswiecim, in then-occupied Poland.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was a concentration and extermination camp used by the Nazis during World War II.
The camp, which was located in Nazi-occupied Poland, consisted of three main sites.
Auschwitz I, the original concentration camp, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a combined concentration and extermination camp, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp, with an additional 45 satellite sites.
Auschwitz, pictured in 1945, was liberated by Soviet troops after approximately 1.1 million people were murdered in the Nazi death camp
Auschwitz was an extermination camp used by the Nazis in Poland to murder over 1.1 million people, most of them Jews.
Birkenau became an important part of the Nazis’ ‘Final Solution’ as they sought to rid Europe of its Jewish population.
An estimated 1.3 million people were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Since 1947 it has served as the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, which was placed on the World Heritage List by Unesco in 1979.