Perilous Times
Jewish cemetery desecrated in eastern France
The Associated Press
Wednesday, January 27, 2010; 11:39 AM
STRASBOURG, France -- Police and Jewish officials say a Jewish cemetery
in eastern France has been desecrated, with some gravestones marked
with swastikas and overturned.
The desecration in a Strasbourg cemetery came as Jews marked the 65th
anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz death camp, a symbol of the
Holocaust, when the Nazis killed millions.
France's main Jewish organization, CRIF, says at least 18 tombstones at
the Cronenbourg cemetery were found Wednesday marked with swastikas and
13 of them were overturned.
The CRIF's Marc Knobel says the inscription "juden raus" (Jews out) was
found on one tomb.
France is home to western Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim
populations, and there are occasional attacks on their schools,
cemeteries or places of worship.