On the ancient Jewish cemetery here, which dates back to the 16th century, hooligans have overturned 25 gravestones in the section that is the last resting place of 72 concentration camp inmates who died just after their 1945 liberation in Bergen-Belsen. The local police has not found the perpetrators.
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