Jewish sources in the Soviet Union reported today that unknown vandals desecrated the Jewish cemetery in the Slobodka quarter of Odessa, a Soviet city on the Black Sea. According the report, scores of tombstones were shattered and many graves were destroyed. The police claimed they were unable to trace this miscreants. One of the famous Jews buried in the Odessa cemetery is Mendele Mocher Sephorim.
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