A Jewish cemetery was recently desecrated in Poland, with unknown vandals spraying the word “Palestine” and a Nazi swastika on a memorial plaque for Jews murdered during the Holocaust.

The incident occurred in Dukla, Poland, a region formerly known as Galicia that was home to a large Jewish population prior to World War II.

“It can be said that today, following in the footsteps of Nazi criminals, Polish vandals are destroying monuments — erasing the traces of our neighbors and fellow citizens who, alongside Poles, helped shape the history of Dukla,” Jacek Koszczan, the head of the Dukla Shtetl organization, said in a media statement.