NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A third generation Manhattanite was stunned when she withdrew money from an Upper East Side Chase Bank only to find the cash stamped with Nazi symbols over the weekend.
Robyn Roth-Moise, 65, said the discovery happened when she went home after she withdrew from a Chase Bank ATM at 86th Avenue and York Avenue on Saturday morning.
"I must have stared at it for a few minutes. And thought, 'I cannot be seeing what I’m seeing.' It was very surreal," she told The New York Post.
Roth-Moise, who shared the images of the withdrawn $100 bills with a Nazi symbol and a Nazi eagle imprinted on at least one of them, added that the marks were "very much meant to be seen."
She told the outlet she went back to the location to get some answers.
"I just wanted the money out of my hands. I was deeply disturbed — how did it happen? How did the money get into the machine without anyone noticing it?" Roth-Moise said.
A Chase representative added that the finding was "unacceptable," and that the ATM is shutdown as they investigate.
Roth-Moise explained to The Post that she was told the bills were likely put into the ATM by a customer making a deposit.
Roth-Moise also turned to Twitter to post about her experience, with City Councilwoman Julie Menin and New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney responding and vowing to investigate.
"This act of hatred is disgusting," Maloney tweeted Monday. "I was in touch with Chase Bank who informed me that the ATM has been shut down. Thank you to @NYCRobyn for bringing it to my and @JulieMenin's attention."
"We have spoken to @Chase who is investigating this location and incident," Menin tweeted on Saturday. "We went to the location and while the branch is closed and not staffed the ATM is there. Anti-Semitism must be called out immediately and won’t be tolerated in any form in our community or city."
Roth-Moise, who is Jewish, told the outlet that this incident is her first experience with antisemitism in all of years of living in New York City.
"My father, who when he was a little boy in the ’30s on the Upper East Side, would tell me about brown-shirt Nazis in Germantown in Yorkville in plain sight," she added.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an associate dean and the director of the global social action agenda at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Post that he is contacting the bank to ask for an investigation.
"The operative word for 2022 is accountability." he said. "Chase must investigate. [The] perpetrator must be held accountable. These micro events may start with Jews, but left unanswered, will surely spread to target Asian Americans, Blacks, etc."
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