Hundreds Rally After Pork Dumped at Holocaust Memorial
Hundreds gathered for a rally Friday morning at Pride of Lynn Cemetery, where a Holocaust memorial was discovered desecrated with pieces of raw pork earlier this week. “We stand united against all forms of evil,” said Rabbi Yossi Lipsker of Chabad Lubavitch of the North Shore, who organized the ceremony reconsecrating the memorial. “We gather here, Jews, Christians, Muslims, and people of all faiths.”
From the Boston Globe:
The incident is being investigated as a hate crime by Lynn police. Lieutenant Rick Donnelly, a spokesman for the department who attended Friday’s service, said a new lead emerged when a cemetery worker found what Donnelly thinks is the wrapper for the pork.
He declined to comment further.
Roberta Taylor, president of the nonprofit board that owns the private cemetery, said the wrapper was from a Shaw’s supermarket.
“We hope they find whoever did this,” Taylor said, adding that the large crowd at Friday’s service should send a strong message to the perpetrators. “We should all get along, and be good to one another.”
Five pieces of raw pork were discovered at around 7 p.m. Tuesday on the stone base of the memorial, dedicated in 1948 in honor of those murdered in the Holocaust.
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