Did Yad Vashem sanction theft of Bruno Schulz's Drohobych frescos?

Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem believes it is "is the right place to commemorate the Jewish artist Bruno Schulz and his frescos made during the Holocaust." On May 21, three people chiseled the frescos out of the wall of an apartment in the Ukrainian town of Drohobych and took them out of the country. It turns out the apartment's owners gave Yad Vashem the frescos for free. The frescos are on the Ukrainian national heritage list and were forbidden to be taken abroad. "I cannot believe that such an important institution commissioned the removal of the fragments of the frescos. They must have known that they were destroying the whole," said Schulz's biographer Jerzy Ficowski. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.1; Rzeczpospolita; pp.1,13) A.Z. Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem believes it is " is the right place to commemorate the Jewish artist Bruno Schulz and his frescos made during the Holocaust." On May 21, three people chiseled the frescos out of the wall of an apartment in the Ukrainian town of Drohobych and took them out of the country. It turns out the apartment's owners gave Yad Vashem the frescos for free. The frescos are on the Ukrainian national heritage list and were forbidden to be taken abroad. " I cannot believe that such an important institution commissioned the removal of the fragments of the frescos. They must have known that they were destroying the whole," said Schulz's biographer Jerzy Ficowski. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.1; Rzeczpospolita; pp.1,13) A.Z.