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SAINTE-GENEVIÈVE-DES-BOIS, France — The largest Russian Orthodox cemetery outside of Russia is quiet on a winter morning, save for birdsong in the birch and pine trees planted between the graves.
COLMAR, France (AP) — Vandals have smashed crosses and monuments on the graves of 95 German soldiers in a joint French-German military cemetery in eastern France, officials said Friday.
Vandals have daubed swastikas on graves at a Christian cemetery in eastern France, two days after a similar incident at a nearby Jewish cemetery. Tombstones were found desecrated at Niederhaslach ...
SAINTE-GENEVIÈVE-DES-BOIS, France — The largest Russian Orthodox cemetery outside of Russia is quiet on a winter morning, save for birdsong in the birch and pine trees planted between the ...
Remembering the D-Day dead at an American cemetery in France . Originally published June 2, 2008 at 12:00 am Updated June 2, 2008 at 4:02 pm ...
A World War II soldier killed during a battle in France in January 1945 has been identified and his remains will be reburied in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Two Jewish cemeteries have been attacked in recent months in Alsace, eastern France, The Local FR reports. Over 100 graves were defaced with swastikas at the cemetery in Westhoffen in December and ...
French police have launched an investigation after Nazi swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were spray-painted on 107 graves in a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg.
The small cemetery is at least 2,100 years old, archaeologists said. It had a rectangular shape, and remnants of a fence were also found nearby. In the center were burn marks and traces of fire.
About a dozen graves were vandalized in a Jewish cemetery in southwest France.. The vandalism took place over the weekend in the Jewish cemetery of Bayonne, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques area.