Fountain in California dedicated to Holocaust survivors toppled and smashed

[Behind the Aegis]

A fountain dedicated to Holocaust survivors that also was used for ritual hand-washing inside a California cemetery was toppled and smashed.

Police are investigating the incident at Santa Rosa Memorial Park to determine if it was a hate crime, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported. The vandalism occurred on Sunday night or Monday morning.

A maintenance trailer at the other end of the cemetery also was damaged, though nothing was reported stolen. Santa Rosa Police told the newspaper that it was unclear if the two vandalism acts are connected.

The fountain was part of a memorial created for the late Lillian Judd and her husband, Emil, local Holocaust survivors. Lillian Judd regularly spoke to Sonoma County students about the Holocaust. A mosaic erected behind the fountain lists the names of 12 family members who were killed during the Holocaust.

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[DonaldsRump]

2. Shocking, disgusting, and unacceptable

I hope they quickly capture the fiend(s) who did this.

[roamer65]

3. Smells like Boogaloos.

Or some other white supremacist garbage.

[sheshe2]

4. The hate needs to stop.

[RobinA]

14. The Hate

ramps up daily. It isn't stopping until something happens to change the subject, because all sides are using it to make their points. The damage is done for now and some time into the future.

[cayugafalls]

5. The culture war is escalating.

There seems to be a trend happening. Retribution for toppling confederate statues.

[oasis]

6. I've never lived in a more miserable period in America than the last

31/2 years. And I've been here for quite sometime.

[Initech]

8. Americans are currently the unhappiest we've been in the last 50 years.

Thanks Trump and the MAGAs!

[smirkymonkey]

7. How evil!

What is the point of this? Revenge?

These people are the scum of the earth. There is no equivilency between a Holocaust memorial and a statue of a racist, slave owning, Confederate traitor to the United States. It's just disgusting

I am so sorry this happened. It's such a tragedy.

[RobinA]

15. To Some People

there apparently is an equivalency and until that is acknowledged this problem will never be solved.

And don't argue with me about whether or not there is an equivalency. SOME PEOPLE THINK SO. That is a fact that has to be dealt with in order to move forward.

[SunSeeker]

9. K & R for exposure.

[Sloumeau]

10. I would bet it was done by the "Jews Will Not Replace Us" boys.

These would be the same boys who Trump thinks are very fine people, that is, when Trump is not pretending to be a friend of Israel by doing something that costs him personally no money, like moving the U.S. embassy in Israel.

[alwaysinasnit]

11. Damn, that is right in my neck of the woods. F'ing assholes.

[Hekate]

12. KnR

[brer cat]

13. What a despicable act

at a place for peace.

[RobinA]

16. Defacing Public Art

is despicable, or just when your ox is being gored?

[kentuck]

17. Our country is disintegrating right before our eyes.

There is no more water in the pan. The frog is cooking.