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Friday, October 3, 1997 | return to: international
Cemetery restored, damaged week later
by PRAGUE (JTA) -- A historic Czech Jewish cemetery has been seriously damaged by vandals., The attack came one week after the cemetery had been restored by a German benevolence group.
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Ostrava is located on the eastern border of the Czech Republic.
More than 80 granite and sandstone tombstones were damaged or overturned. Police have not made any arrests in the crime -- which resulted in more than $29,000 in damage.
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