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World Jewish News
Memorial signs on the former Jewish cemetery desecrated in Minsk
17.05.2009
A memorial sign on the former Jewish cemetery in Minsk, commemorating the Jews who were deported from Germany and killed in ghetto, was desecrated.
Leonid Levin, chairman of the Union of Jewish public associations and communities (UJPAC), addressed the Moskovsky police department in Minsk because of the desecration of the memorial sign on the territory of the former Jewish cemetery on Sukhaya street.
"Particularly significant is the fact that this happened in the days when Belarus marks the Day of Victory over the German fascist invaders. We ask you to investigate this act of vandalism, to find and punish those responsible," the statement reads.
Mr. Levin sees the crime as part of a chain of the recent anti-Semitic acts: fascist inscriptions on the wall of a Jewish community house in Vitebsk, the desecration of a monument to prisoners of the ghetto in the center of Brest, and in the same line, in his opinion, is the event at Sukhaya Str. in Minsk.
As the UJPAC spokesperson Veronica Rusakova told the Jewish News agency, the act of vandalism was committed on the night of May 12 to 13.
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