All windows were shattered and anti-Semitic graffiti was painted on a synagogue 300 miles northeast of Moscow. No one was hurt in Sunday’s incident in Yaroslavl, the Moscow office of the Anti-Defamation League said.
A state-of-the-art, multimillion-dollar conservation laboratory is being inaugurated this week at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. The lab, which already has begun operation, is located in a transformed wing of the Auschwitz Visitors Center.
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