Thursday, May 28, 2009

Press-Republican: Jewish cemetery vandalized in Saranac Lake

Kim Smith Dedam is reporting this afternoon that the Jewish section of the Pine Ridge Cemetery in Saranac Lake was vandalized over the Memorial Day weekend. A dozen graves, some historic, were toppled.

Saranac Lake police are investigating, according to Kim's report:

Some of the memorials in Hebrew Memorial Cemetery are historic, including one stone placed by Lake Placid residents Dr. and Mrs. Bartholomew Ring that is dedicated to 25 of their relatives who died in Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.
The Ring stone was among those vandalized.

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At May 29, 2009 11:23 AM , Blogger Susan Olsen said...

This just makes me sick. What a disgrace to our town that someone should do this here. Especially after seeing "Fiddler on the Roof" performed in LP last weekend, I feel chilled and shaken by this.

Steve DeHond has a beautiful letter in the Adk Daily Enterprise addressing this:

http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/506737.html?nav=5005

 

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