Vandals this week desecrated a monument marking the spot in Poland where hundreds of Jews were burned alive during World War II, scrawling "they were flammable" and a swastika on the memorial, according to the Associated Press website.
The government, Poland's Jewish community, and Holocaust survivors strongly condemned the attack on the site, which marks one of the most notorious cases in which local Poles collaborated with Nazis in killing Jews during the German wartime occupation.
The monument -- located in the town of Jedwabne -- honors the victims of July 10, 1941, when about 40 Poles hunted down the town's Jews, locked them up in a barn, and set it on fire, killing some 400 Jews.
Vandals used green paint to spray the symbols of a swastika and "SS" -- the name of an elite Nazi force -- on the monument, as well as the phrases "I don't apologize for Jedwabne" and "they were flammable."
Piotr Kadlcik -- the head of Poland's Jewish community -- called on authorities to crack down harder on anti-Semitic incidents, since similar incidents in Poland have been treated with too much leniency for many years.
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