A series of words and drawings were found scrawled on the memorial on Sunday morning. It's the second act of vandalism targeting the Sheepshead Bay Jewish community in the last two weeks.
The graffiti, a series of drawings, and Russian words and curses were discovered Sunday morning.
New York State Assemblyman William Colton said that while the drawings were not anti-Semitic, as had been previously reported, the graffiti dishonored what the memorial represents. "The offense here is that someone would desecrate, deface a monument that is dedicated to making sure that never again do we see the violence in the Holocaust repeated," Colton said. Jewish community. Last Wednesday, someone sprayed graffiti on the side of Congregation Beth Shalom on Avenue X, roughly a mile from the memorial.
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