KRISTALLNACHT VANDALISM

Nazi graffiti daubed on memorial (BBC)
Vandals have daubed Nazi swastikas on a war memorial in West Sussex. Police officers also found anti-Semitic graffiti painted on one home and a shop close to the memorial in Chapel Road, Worthing, on Saturday morning. A spokesman for Sussex Police said: "This is offensive and racist graffiti. It's fairly large-scale." The Royal British Legion said it was "dismayed and upset" by the graffiti, which was removed prior to the main service at 1100 GMT.

Rioters vandalize Kristallnacht memorial (JTA)
Police in a town in eastern Germany arrested 16 neo-Nazis who tore up wreaths at a Kristallnacht memorial. The wreaths, destroyed during a riot in Frankfurt an der Oder, had been laid at the site of a synagogue destroyed in the 1938 anti-Jewish riots that signaled the advent of the Holocaust. Thursday marked the pogrom’s 68th anniversary. Police said those arrested were between ages 16 and 24. Neo-Nazism is more of a problem in eastern Germany, with higher unemployment and little tradition of education about Germany’s fascist past, than in other parts of the country.

Vandals attack Hillel House (JTA)
Vandals threw rocks and shattered windows at Hillel House at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Mark Weintraub, chair of the Canadian Jewish Congress’ Pacific region, noted that the vandalism occurred earlier this week during Holocaust Awareness Week, a coincidence that “further highlights the heinous nature of this crime.” “This week is the anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, when the Nazis began their attacks on German Jews in 1938,” Weintraub said. “Clearly, there are still lessons to be learned.”