Authorities in Idaho’s Boise are investigating after the only Anne Frank monument in the United States was vandalized by swastika stickers. “We take hate and hate messages seriously,” the Boise Police Department said in a statement Wednesday. “We are committed to sowing hatred in our community and expelling harmful individuals.” Investigators are currently reviewing the surveillance video, police said. Nine stickers bearing the Nazi logo were found with the words “We are everywhere” Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial Tuesday morning, the Wasmud Center for Human Rights said in a Facebook post. The center erected a monument in 2002 to honor the life and heritage of Anne Frank. It features a life-size statue of a girl holding a diary, which she and her family hid for 761 days until they were discovered by the Nazis in 1944 and sent to concentration camps. Anne died in 1945 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when she was 15 years old. “It simply came to our notice then [the stickers] Dan Prinsing, managing director of the Wasmud Center for Human Rights, told the Associated Press. The monument was decommissioned in 2017 by racist and anti-Semitic graffiti, so despite $ 20,000, the stickers found Tuesday were easily removed. The complex history of neo-Nazi and white supremacy for Idaho dates back decades. The group of extremist Aryan nations was based on a mix in the state from the late 1970s to 2001. In the last few years. Last year, the Associated Press reported that white extremist groups were on the rise in the Pacific Northwest, with at least nine of them classified as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center operating on the Idaho / Washington border. In July, neo-Nazi symbols were spotted among opposition protesters at a Black Lives Matter rally in Boise. “Many of the men in the photos and video show tattoos, or SS, a paramilitary group Respon Nazi, are apt for some of the worst atrocities in Nazi Germany,” Boise State Public Radio reported. On the same day the stickers were found in an intense anti-mask rally in the state capital. State health officials were also forced to conclude a meeting of the Four District Mask Order as the homes of armed protesters and group members outside the state capital were seen as a threat to public safety. “This is not normal – the rhetoric we have seen has no place in our community for the past days and months,” Boise Mayor Lauren McLean said in a statement Wednesday. “Bad actors who use racist and violent rhetoric are not welcome in this community.” At a news conference Thursday, McLean said Boise residents “need to reckon this act is a sign of something in our community.” Daniel Fink, rabbi of the Boise Congregation, told reporters in Beth Israel. He quoted Crystal Nats on November 9, 1938, when the Nazis were annihilated throughout Germany. Shrines and destroyed Jewish businesses – a moment he described as the beginning of the Holocaust. “Think back to the events of recent dates that night [when you see] A swastika in that statue book that marks Anne Frank’s diary, “he said.” This is the kind of gang rule that people are attacking the homes of our government officials – they represent a kind of intimidation and fear, and more importantly an attempt to attack fear through a kind of terrorism. “We know where it’s going. The cycle of injustice. It reminds us of how things turn out if the good guys don’t stop it. And it’s better to stop earlier than that.” Since Tuesday, Boise residents have left flowers and signs at the monument condemning the carnage.