Utica Jewish community leaders scheduled today a meeting with police officials over swastika smearings on the homes of two Jewish couples who fled from Nazi Germany in 1938 to find a haven in the United States.
Leo Simon, his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Lorig, his sister and brother-in-law, settled in upstate New York, going into the cattle business in a rural area north of Utica. As practically the only Jewish families in the area, they were obvious targets for hate-mongers, according to the Utica Jewish Community Relations Committee.
The swastikas and Nazi slogans were smeared on the home the two families occupy. Community relations officials indicated doubt that the smearings were a prank of youngsters. They cited the height of the markings, the choice of a penetrating yellow paint and the slogans as indicating older anti-Semites. The Utica Interfaith Commission of Religion and Race plans to participate with the Community Relations officials in talks with the police in the search for the vandals.
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