Via KHPG, EAJC:
Anti-Semitic vandals have desecrated the Menorah at Babi Yar [Ukrainian: Babyn Yar ], the site where at the end of September 1941 the Nazis murdered over 33 thousand Jews. This latest of six vandal attacks on the Menorah was carried out between 2 and 3 a.m. on Sunday night, the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
The assailants put tyres around the Menorah, poured an inflammatory liquid over them and set them alight. Thankfully the flames were noticed and put out by the guard watching over the Ukrainian Orthodox Church nearby.
The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress points out that the same method was used to desecrate the Memorial to the Victims of the Holocaust in Melitopol (Zaporizhya oblast) during the early hours of Aug 27. That, in turn, was the second of two acts of vandalism during the summer, much more serious than the first.
On Sept 6, as well as twice in January and in June a swastika was daubed on one of the memorial stones next to the Menorah. more
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