Czech Jewish leaders condemned an attack on a cemetery that targeted the tombstones of girls killed in the Holocaust. The incident in the city of Trutnov took place on the 65th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the pogrom on Nov. 9-10, 1938, when Nazi-inspired rioters looted and burned down thousands of Jewish properties and religious sites in Germany and Austria.
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