ODESSA WORKERS DESECRATE JEWISH CEMETARY

Odessa workers desecrate Jewish cemetery (JTA)
A Jewish cemetery in of Odessa, shut down by the Soviets in the 1970s, was desecrated by city workers. Jewish.ru reported Monday that a local Ukrainian television crew, following up on a report of homeless people living in the cemetery, discovered that city workers had been using heavy equipment to dig massive holes in the burial ground.

The corpses they dug up were mixed with garbage commonly dumped on the grounds.
Roman Shvartzman, chairman of an Odessa association of Holocaust survivors, said the construction crews had made a mockery of those buried there.

After the cemetery was closed down, the city reportedly used some of the gravestones for construction, and Jewish community representatives claim some local citizens continue to do so even today.