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BRUSSELS HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL VANDALIZED

BRUSSELS July 25, 2006 (EJP) - The Brussels Jewish Memorial for Holocaust victims has been vandalized, in an attack described as "devastating" by the head of a Belgian Jewish association.

The gate of the Memorial’s crypt was pulled out, documents were destroyed, windows broken and an urn containing ashes from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp was desecrated and emptied.

"Anti-Semitic vandals, moved by a destructive rage, left behind a scene of devastation," [Judith Kronfeld, secretary general of the "Union of deportees in Belgium-Sons and Daughters of deportation" organisation] said.

Condoms and excrements were also found on the floor of the Memorial which is located in Anderlecht, a Brussels district with an important Arab population.

No inscription was found Monday night. Police arrived on the scene Tuesday morning.

The Brussels National Monument to the Jewish Martyrs of Belgium bears the names of 25,411 men, women and children deported from Belgium to Auschwitz-Birkenau during WWII.