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Vienna Police Arrest Youths for Desecrating Jewish Cemetery

Austrian police announced today the arrest to two 16-year-old vandals of a Jewish cemetery who were caught trying to sell gold teeth fillings taken from skeletons in the cemetery. The vandals, whose names were withheld, uprooted six tombs and three vaults in the Jewish central cemetery in their search for foot.

September 25, 1963
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Austrian police announced today the arrest to two 16-year-old vandals of a Jewish cemetery who were caught trying to sell gold teeth fillings taken from skeletons in the cemetery. The vandals, whose names were withheld, uprooted six tombs and three vaults in the Jewish central cemetery in their search for foot.

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