National/World

Holocaust memorials atop mass graves in Estonia vandalized

(JTA) – Unidentified individuals scrawled antisemitic slogans and symbols on monuments for Holocaust victims in Estonia. The incident occurred sometime last week at the Kalevi-Liiva village in the Harju County near Tallinn, the capital of the Baltic nation of Estonia, the website News-Front reported Thursday. The monuments, erected at sites of mass killings of Jews during the Holocaust, were also damaged with a blowtorch. One monument was defaced with a swastika. Another read: “Juden,” German for Jews. A third had the words “Sieg Heil,” a Nazi greeting, written on it. Virtually all of the 4,500 that had lived in Estonia before the Holocaust were murdered by January 1942, when it became the first country in Europe to be declared “Jew-free” by the Nazis.

SHARE
RELATED POSTS
Moe Berg, catcher turned spy, gets an exhibit in Baseball Hall of Fame
Kuwait Airways to compensate Israeli barred from London flight
During Israel visit, Duterte lays wreath at Yad Vashem, pledging ‘Never Again’

Leave Your Reply