A Holocaust monument in Ukraine was vandalized this week with a red swastika that the perpetrators painted over a Star of David symbol, the JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) website reports today (June 19, 2015).
The vandalism in Nikopol -- an eastern Ukrainian city located 60 miles from Dnepropetrovsk -- occurred on June 16, according to a report by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine.
Alexander Taratuta -- who heads Nikopol's small Jewish community -- said he filed a complaint with police about the act of vandalism, but the perpetrators have not been identified. A total of about 20,000 Jews were murdered in Dnepropetrovsk alone in World War II during the Nazi occupation of the area.
Today, Dnepropetrovsk's Menorah Jewish community center and office building houses Ukraine's largest museum about the genocide, the Tkuma Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies.
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