'Removing the plaques is not a whitewashing of history. Rather, it is a refusal to continue to honor two people who made the choice to embody the worst of humanity.'
Mark Levine is calling for NYC to remove Henri Philippe Petain and Pierre Laval from the Canyon of Heroes in Lower Manhattan. Lauren Glassberg has the story.There are growing calls urging New York City officials to remove plaques from the Canyon of Heroes which honor Nazi collaborators.
The Canyon of Heroes is home to granite inscriptions installed in the sidewalks to honor participants of past ticker-tape parades. "This is the largest community of Holocaust survivors on Earth outside of Israel, it is unacceptable that these two men would occupy a place of honor here," Levine said. "Removing these plaques, taking them from this place of tremendous honor, isn't removing or hiding history -- it is telling history," said Gideon Taylor with JCRC-NY."Removing the plaques is not a whitewashing of history. Rather, it is a refusal to continue to honor two people who made the choice to embody the worst of humanity," Levine said.
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