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Jewish cemetery vandalised, north east Poland

PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle 20.03.2012 09:00
Police are investigating anti-Semitic slogans and Nazi symbols scrawled on monuments and graves in a Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Podlaksie province, north east Poland.

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photo - Artur Reszko

Vandals wrote in paint, "Here is Poland, not Israel" on a plaque commemorating Jews from the town, which has a population of around 10,000.

Local deputy mayor Eva Konarzewska said that the anti-Semitic graffiti appeared sometime on Sunday night, Monday morning.

“Let's hope that the perpetrators will be arrested and suffer the consequences. We are a peaceful town,” she told journalists.

The Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie was founded in the second half of the nineteenth century.

After falling into disrepair during and after WW II, the cemetery was restored in 2006 by the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage.

Last year several incidents of anti-Semitic vandalism were reported in the region, including damage to the monument commemorating the brutal pogrom of Jews in Jedwabne by Polish villagers in 1941.(pg)

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