Legislation enforcement officers in Washington, D.C. are investigating after swastikas have been discovered drawn on the outside of Washington Union Station.

The vandalism on the prepare station comes a day after Worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Day, which occurred on January 27, and is honored to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.

In a submit on Twitter Friday morning, CBS Information White Home reporter Bo Erickson posted pictures of the vandalism.

"There are hand-drawn swastikas all around the entrance to Union Station in DC. Nearly each column," Erickson wrote.

When reached for touch upon Friday morning, Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Division referred Newsweek to Amtrak, which is dealing with the investigation of the vandalism.

"An investigation is underway after property harm was reported at Washington Union Station," Kimberly Woods, a spokesperson for Amtrak informed Newsweek Friday morning.

"Amtrak Police is working with the Metropolitan Police Division to research," she added.

Many condemned the vandalism on social media.

"That is deeply disturbing," the Jewish Democratic Council of America tweeted.

"When will sufficient be sufficient? How a lot antisemitism should Jewish People endure earlier than our leaders will take actual motion?"

Swastikas Found on Train Station
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"Disgusting. To see these symbols seem the morning after #HolocaustRemembranceDay is a merciless reminder that antisemitism nonetheless permeates our society," Consultant Mary Homosexual Scanlon, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, wrote on Twitter Friday morning.

"We should converse out towards such hateful acts after we see them," she added.

Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated on January 27—the day that Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most important Nazi loss of life camp, was liberated.

"On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges each member state to honor the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and tens of millions of different victims of Nazism and to develop academic applications to assist forestall future genocides," the USA Holocaust Memorial Museum wrote on its web site.

The day was formally proclaimed by the United Nations in November 2005.

In accordance with the Anti-Defamation League, antisemitic incidents in the USA are being reported at "file ranges."

The group tracked 2,024 reported antisemitic incidents all through the nation in 2020.

"Whereas this was a 4 % lower from the two,107 incidents recorded in 2019, it was nonetheless the third-highest 12 months on file since ADL started monitoring antisemitic incidents in 1979," the group wrote on its web site on January 16.

Of the 2020 circumstances, the Anti-Defamation League mentioned 1,242 of the reported incidents have been circumstances of harassment, 51 incidents have been circumstances of vandalism, and 31 have been circumstances of antisemitic assault.

Up to date 01/28/2022, 3:14 p.m. ET: This story has been up to date with a photograph of Washington Union Station.