A number of anti-Semitic actions have occurred in Czechoslovakia during the last week, according to reports in the Czech press, received here today.
The newspaper Prace reported that two youths of 18 were arrested in the town of Trebic on charges of having participated in the desecration of an old Jewish cemetery there. According to the local police, 50 tombstones in the Jewish cemetery, some dating back 600 to 700 years, had been overturned.
In Pilsen, according to another daily, Rude Pravo, a group of 13-to-14-year-old boys, led by one who is 17, broke into a synagogue. Kultura Tvorba reported that, in Pilsen also, school boys saluted one another by shouting “Heit Hitler!” cursed Jews, and sang chauvinistic, Nazi songs. The writer of the article said the boys learned the songs from phonograph records of Nazi marches preserved by an adult in the city.
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