Vandals overturned 34 gravestones and destroyed five of them in a Jewish cemetery in Eisenstadt in eastern Austria, Paul Gross, president of the Vienna Jewish community, reported Tuesday. He said the damage was discovered Sunday and that local police were informed by telephone from Vienna and are conducting an investigation. Gross could not say when the vandalism occurred but it appears to have been fairly recently.
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