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Athens Holocaust Memorial Desecrated
The Athens Holocaust Memorial was desecrated for the second time in five months.
On Oct. 30, the logo of the ultranationalist group known as the Unaligned Meander Nationalists was spray-painted in blue on the memorial.
In June, threats against the Jewish community were spray-painted on the monument, which was erected in 2010 and commemorates the more than 60,000 Greek Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. Today, only about 5,000 Jews live in Greece.
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