BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Vandals have smashed and knocked over the headstones of about 130 graves in a Jewish cemetery in Budapest, the head of a Hungarian Jewish organisation said on Wednesday.
The cemetery was closed for the Jewish holiday of Shavuot on Monday and Tuesday and the damage to the graves, made of granite and marble, was only discovered on Wednesday, Gusztav Zoltai, director of the Jewish organisation Mazsihisz, told Reuters.
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