Wiesenthal Center Praises Thai Authorities For The Removal Of Offensive Nazi-Theme Decor From Bangkok-Area Hotel
October 15, 2018 The Simon
Wiesenthal Center praised Thai authorities for removing a mural of Adolf Hitler
as well as swastika decorations from a “Nazi-themed” guest room at the Love
Villa Hotel in Nonthaburi. Following a direct protest from the Wiesenthal
Center to Thai political and diplomatic leaders, Mueang Nonthaburi District
authorities and soldiers entered the hotel and asked for the Nazi images to be
taken down.
“The Simon Wiesenthal Center is
grateful for the intervention by Thai authorities who forced the Hotel owner to
remove the ‘Hitler’ motif from his hotel. It is unfortunate in 2018, that it
took a protest to the Prime Minister of Thailand for the hotel owner to do the
right thing,” said Rabbi
Abraham Cooper, the Center’s Associate Dean and Director of Global Social
Action, who brought the Wiesenthal Center’s “Courage To Remember” Holocaust
exhibit to Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University in 2014.
“Every day that room was it use was a
desecration of the memory of the Nazi Holocaust and all those who fought and
died to defeat Nazism,” Rabbi
Cooper concluded.
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