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Lithuania — Jewish gravestone fragments used as building materials for a school

In Vilnius, the  hillside Užupis cemetery, the final resting place of some 70,000 people, was demolished under  Soviet rule in the 1960s and basically used as a quarry for building material….Many of the gravestones were used to construct a stairway … continue reading →

Kosovo — OSCE Condemns Desecration of Jewish Cemetery in Pristina

The OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) mission in Kosovo has condemned the recent desecration of the Jewish cemetery in the Kosovo capital, Pristina. Nazi swastikas were painted over a majority of the fifty tombstones, and the message … continue reading →