Three schoolchildren were responsible for one of the worst desecrations of a Slovak Jewish cemetery since the Holocaust, the country’s Interior Ministry said. The Interior Ministry said three children aged between 11 and 13 had damaged the gravestones because they were looking for gold underneath them.
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