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graffiti in red marker; more generally two different areas of the site were also defaced over the next few days with racist slurs against black people and Jews causing $ 20,000 in damage, due in part to the botched initial attempts at repair. The vandalism, the first since the memorial's dedication
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official literature, or at the site itself directly identifies Anne Frank as a Jewish victim of the
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