Anti-semitism turns violent here at home, this time in Terre Haute, Indiana.
The FBI has joined the investigation into a fire at a Terre Haute holocaust museum, one day after the museum was destroyed in a suspected arson. Doug Garrison, a spokesman for the FBI's Indianapolis office, said Wednesday the FBI has classified the case as an investigation into possible "domestic terrorism."Posted by Alan at November 21, 2003 12:06 AMAuthorities have said accelerant was used to start the early Tuesday morning fire at the CANDLES Holocaust Museum. The museum at 1532 S. Third Street is operated by Auschwitz survivor Eva Kor and her husband, Michael, also a holocaust survivor.
Someone apparently threw a brick through a window before setting the building on fire just before 12:15 a.m., Vigo County Prosecutor Bob Wright has said. On a brick exterior wall, investigators found the spray-painted phrase "Remember Timmy McVeigh."
McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber and a suspected member of the patriot movement, was executed at the U.S. Penitentiary, Terre Haute in June 2001.
Outside the museum Wednesday, someone left three pink roses in a vase, along with a sympathy card. It was a small token in an outpouring of support that museum education director Mary Wright has seen since the early morning hours Tuesday.
"It's been a curse and a blessing," she said of the fire that destroyed irreplaceable exhibits, many of which were created by visiting school children at CANDLES, acronym for Children of Auschwitz Nazis' Deadly Lab Experiment Survivors.
via the Tribune Star