Nazi slogans in Berlin
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Berlin memorial to deported Jews vandalized
Vandals burn small Israeli flag, knock over candles Grunewald train station memorial; swastikas sprayed on walls of Jewish Agency building in Moscow
Vandals burned a small Israeli flag and knocked over candles at a Berlin memorial to Jews deported during the Holocaust, police said Wednesday.
Police said they discovered the damage shortly before midnight Tuesday at the memorial at the Grunewald train station, from which thousands of Jews were deported to death camps during the Holocaust.
An investigation was under way.
Meanwhile in Moscow, assailants sprayed swastikas on the walls of the building housing the Jewish Agency in the Russian capital.
Earlier this week a group of about 20 people chanting Nazi slogans accosted a rabbi in central Ukraine, a Jewish community spokesman said.
Rabbi Shlomo Vilgelm was uninjured in the attack late Monday near the synagogue in Zhytomyr, about 140 kilometers (90 miles) west of Kiev, said Oleh Rostovtsev, spokesman for the Federation of Jewish Communities in Ukraine.
Police have opened a criminal investigation into the incident, but did not comment on specifics.
