Two Jewish sites in Lithuania were vandalized in recent weeks, a monitoring group said. Earlier this month, police in the town of Kaisiadorys discovered that a Holocaust memorial was destroyed. The monument marked a site in the nearby Strosiunai Forest, where nearly 3,000 Jews were massacred during World War II.
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