Two teens arrested in Tulsa for destroyng Jewish art museum’s memorial to child victims of Holocaust

Two teens have been arrested on suspicion of vandalising and destroying a memorial commemorating the Holocaust.

Police say that surveillance video showed the young men first attempting to steal the five statues comprising the memorial, then knocking them down and destroying them.

The metal statues formed an outdoor memorial at the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art. Each statue was filled with 2,000 stones, each bearing the name of a Jewish child murdered in the Holocaust.

The museum thanked the Tulsa community “for the overwhelming support” and for understanding the importance of “what these statues symbolised.”

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