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Cemetery, Synagogue
Vandalized In Boston
Boston (JTA) — On what
would have been Adolf
Hitler's 104th birthday, a
Jewish cemetery and a tem-
ple were vandalized in
separate suburbs north of
Boston.
More than 100 gravestones
in a section of the Everett
(Mass.) Jewish Cemeteries
were overturned, and many
were spray- painted with
swastikas, the emblem of
Nazi Germany.
The Everett High School
and a Vietnamese-owned
convenience store were also
defaced, with racist slogans,
such as "Niggers are Apes"
and "Gooks Get Out."
Further north in the town
of Peabody, Temple Ner
Tamid was covered with an-
ti-Semitic graffiti, swastikas
and the word "Jude," which
is German for "Jew."
Police could not immedi-
ately determine whether the
various incidents were con-
nected.
In the Everett Cemeteries,
the perpetrators' ultimate
message was impossible to
miss. It was spray-painted
clearly on the side of one
building, which .read:
"Happy Birthday, Adolph"
(sic).
According to Dprothy and
Eugene Green, the
caretakers of the cemetery,
the damage- was discovered
at approximately 4 a.m.,
during a routine "pass-
through" by the Everett
police. The Greens were con-
tacted at 5:30 a.m., and by 6
a.m., the police had begun
searching for clues.
Stanley Kaplan, president
of the Jewish Cemetery
A-srsociation of
Massachusetts, said that out
of:the 30 burial grounds con-
tained within the Everett
Jewish Cemeteries, the ones
damaged were the Berson
Cemetery and the Dor-
chester Hebrew Helping
Hand Cemetery.
The timing of the in-
cidents, occurring during a
week of Holocaust obser
vances culminating in the
dedication of the U.S. Holo-
caust Memorial Museum in
Washington, has left little
doubt the cemetery desecra-
tion was an act of anti-
Semitism.
"From the damage I've
seen and from the date and
from what's going on and
from the hate symbols, this
is definitely a deliberate
act," said one Everett police
•
,
officer, ruling out the possi-
bility of this being a random
act committed by youths.
"Everything is con-
nected," said Cantor Sam
Pessaroff of Peabody's Tem-
ple Ner Tamid. "It was
planned to happen on
Hitler's birthday, to show
that these feelings are still
around. People are leaving
our temple in tears. I can't
even describe the way we
feel."
Cantor Pessaroff said the
temple has decided to leave
the graffiti up for an
undecided amount of time,
so people will be forced to
view it.
"You have to see it in per-
son to get the true effect," he
said. "I mean you can read
about it in the paper and
watch it on the news, but
only when you see it for
yourself does the real anger
come out. We're frightened."
The school department in
Everett has already begun
planning an educational
program to begin next week,
when the students return
from spring break, to
"relieve any tensions bet-
ween the students," said
Frederick Forestiere, super-
intendent of schools.
If the vandals were
Everett students, then "it's
no more than a handful of
them," said Mr. Forestiere,
adding, "We've never seen
anything like this before."
A liquor bottle found on
the cemetery grounds and
whatever fingerprints could
be obtained from the over-
turned gravestones were the
only immediate clues the
police had at their disposal.
But the police already
have a general idea of possi-
ble suspects, according to
Police Chief James Bonnell.
"Obviously we're looking
for at least three, probably
more, but no more than 10,"
said Mr. Bonnell. "You have
to have at least that much of
a group for the strength
needed to turn over this type
of stone."
Mr. Bonnell said the police
do not believe the vandalism
was spontaneous, but that if
was also not an act that was
carefully planned out over
time. He said the police were
determined to make an ar-
rest as soon as possible.
But to people with family
buried within the walls of
the desecrated cemeteries,
the police response was
hardly a consolation.