07 August 2007
Hundreds of gravestones in the Polish Jewish cemetery of Czestochowa have been desecrated and daubed with anti-Semitic graffiti. The Polish Jewish community was told about the desecration on Sunday after local police in the southern Polish town discovered the vandalism. Town authorities have said that they would clean up the graves. Swastikas, skinhead symbols and a Star of David in a noose were among the graffiti found on the tombstones. There are 4,500 graves in the cemetery, which dates back to the late 18th century and is one of the biggest Jewish cemeteries in Poland. Some 40,000 Jews, one-third of the city's population, lived in Czestochowa before the Holocaust. About 100 Jews now live today.
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