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Austrian Police Detain Youths Caught Desecrating Jewish Cemetery

August 15, 1962
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Two boys, 14 and 16 years of age, were apprehended by police today in the town of Horn after they were caught damaging tombstones in the town’s Jewish cemetery. The police said the boys were “playing” in the cemetery and damaged the gravestones “without any religious or political intentions.”

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