Thousands of volunteers in the Polish city of Lodz cleaned up city walls long defaced by racist and anti-Semitic graffiti. Local officials and Jewish leaders judged this week’s “Action Colorful Tolerance” a success — despite the fact that vandals scrawled anti-Semitic slogans on the home of a prominent local Jewish figure after the clean-up took place.
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