The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS), the country’s EJC affiliate, has expressed its dismay following the vandalisation of the Holocaust monument in Kastoria, erected in memory of the 1,000 Jews of the city deported and exterminated in Auschwitz by the Nazis.
“Using black spray-paint to deface the inscription on the Monument, the fanatic preachers of hatred aimed both at erasing the memory of the once flourishing Jewish community and at destroying the symbolisms that the Monuments transmits,” the Board said in a statement.
The act was condemned by the mayor of Kastoria, while local citizens promptly cleaned the monument.