Destroyed Jewish cemetery in Poland

The anti-Semitic vandals do vandalism in a Jewish burial complex in eastern Poland. They reorder the Star of David shaped bush that surrounds the cemetery to shape the Nazi swastika.


Quoted by Reuters news agency on Tuesday, September 13, 2011, local television showing images of Nazi swastikas in the middle of the original location of the Star of David. "The unknown vandals damage Jewish cemetery monuments, and the action was allegedly carried out at night," said Andrzej Baranowski, a spokesman for the city of Bialystok police.
"Now the swastika has been cleared," he added. This action is a form of anti-Semitism the most recent turmoil in Poland, which is home to the largest Jewish population in Europe during the Nazi occupation, and during World War II.
U.S. Holocaust Victims Association condemned the acts of vandalism occurred in the Jewish cemetery. They urged the Polish government to further pursue the protection of such sites.
"Security in a location that was established to commemorate the Jewish community of Poland Poland should become a national duty. The massacre of Poles by Nazi Germany is a historical reality. But Poland's role in protecting themselves from the massacre of Jewish residents also have not been met," the group said in a statement.
Earlier on September 1, the vandals also damaged a site that was established to commemorate the victims of massacre of Polish Jews during World War II. They damage the site in Bialystok by adding swastikas and racist writings.
The Jews who had escaped the Holocaust often receive physical violence from their Polish neighbors after the war. Many others are discriminated against by the communist government.
The majority of the remaining Polish Jews fled to Israel or other Western countries in the late 1960s. However, since the fall of communism in 1989, there is increasing interest in the heritage of Polish-Jewish heritage, especially among the young.