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Large Cemetery Vandalized in Poland

by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Antisemites painted swastikas and other Nazi symbols on over 100 gravestones at one of Poland's largest Jewish cemeteries, located in the town of Czestochowa. On Sunday 21 Av visitors came upon the damage and summoned the police, who opened an investigation. No suspects have been arrested.

Using black spray paint the vandals desecrated grave sites with swastikas, the letters SS, and the words "Jews Out" in German.

A police spokeswoman says there has been no known antisemitic activity by any group in the area recently and that the incident appears to have been perpetrated by hooligans.

The cemetery in Czestochowa, which was home to 40,000 Jews before the Holocaust, has 4,500 graves.

In recent months similar incidents of antisemitism have been reported in Western Europe.

 

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