Christians Sympathize After Geneva Memorial to Jews Is Desecrated

GENEVA (JTA) — Francois
Brunschwig, the president of the
Geneva Jewish community, dis-
closed that he and the chief rabbi
had received many messages of
sympathy from leading members
of the Geneva Christian commun-
ity over the daubing of a memorial
stone for the 6,000,000 European
Jewish victims of the Nazi holo-
caust. The Memorial is located
outside the Geneva synagogue.
Unknown vandals tossed a dye-
filled plastic bag at the memorial.
The bag burst and spattered the
stone with red paint. Brunschwig
said he did not consider the smear-
ing as an act of anti-Semitism. He
regarded the desecration as an act
of vandalism by a young hooligan,
probably the same person who
defaced another Geneva monu-
ment on eight previous occasions.

Police found the plastic bag
He also announced that the
near the memorial but said they community would soon erect a
had no clues to the identity of the second memorial to the victims of
vandals. A number of similar Nazism. The second memorial will
smearings have occurred since the be built at the Jewish cemetery on
monument was dedicated.
the outskirts of Geneva.

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