A Jewish man who launched a legal case to have an antisemitic carving removed from a German church wall has vowed to take the case all the way to EU Court of Human Rights, after losing a regional appeal.
The 13th century bas-relief, known as “Judensau” (Jews’ sow), sits on the side of the Stadtkirche in Wittenberg and depicts a rabbi looking under the tail of a sow, while another figure suckles on its teat from below.
Last week, a panel of judges at the Saxony-Anhalt state’s superior court rejected Michael Düllmann’s claim, finding the image “did not harm Jews’ reputation” because it was embedded in a wider memorial context.
The case had been brought after a lower court decided against Mr Düllmann’s claim.
