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Nearly 200 Tombstones Desecrated

April 26, 1972
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Immigrants arriving today from the Soviet Union reported that nearly 200 tombstones were broken or desecrated in Jewish cemeteries in the USSR during the last two weeks. They reported that 130 stones were broken in the Dniepropetrovsk cemetery and another 30 at the cemetery in Nikopol.

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