David Adelman, billionaire 76ers co-owner, recalls Holocaust memorial vandalism: 'I was f---ing pissed'

A suspect was caught on video spray-painting a swastika at Philadelphia's Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza, FOX 29 Philadelphia reports.

PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia 76ers limited partner David Adelman ushers this journalist to the front of the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza at 16th and Arch Streets, at the head of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and tells him to look down.

"Read this," Adelman says, taking a step back to allow time to soak in the important scripture on the tablet. 

The first two sentences hit like a ton of bricks.

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David Adelman (Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images/File)

"Sam Wasserman's story of Holocaust survival is one of both tragedy and hope. He was imprisoned by the Nazis in 1942 at Sobibor in Poland, where he lost his first wife and two children," the tablet reads. 

Wasserman was Adelman's grandfather, and one can tell that walking the grounds still has a profound effect on Adelman today, even after the plaza was completed in October 2018, centering around the oldest public Holocaust monument in North America: the "Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs" sculpture.

So, when a vandal spray-painted a green swastika on a wall in January, Adelman had visceral reaction. 

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"I was f---ing pissed," he told Fox News Digital. "I wasn’t surprised, but I was pissed. It’s unfortunate I wasn’t surprised."

Adelman said he wanted to leave the hate crime up on the wall for a few days "because no one will believe it happened. They'll say it was manufactured or whatever."

"We took it down, but I was f---ing pissed," he said.

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