Deaths threats painted on Jewish center

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Swastikas and the words "Jews shall die" were found painted on the walls of the Soref Jewish community center in Coral Springs, Fla., police said.

The vandalism was discovered Monday on the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht, meaning the "night of the broken glass," in Nazi Germany, which many consider the beginning of the Holocaust.

"We don't know if it's circumstantial or there's some linkage right now," said Andrew Rosenkranz, regional director of the Florida Anti-Defamation League, which is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible.

Workers at the Soref center found the swastikas and threat that "Jews shall die" spray-painted in gold when they arrived at the center Monday morning, police told The South Florida Sun-Sentinel in an article published Tuesday.

Kristallnacht was a Nov. 9, 1938, pogrom in Germany and Austria in which the official toll of Jews killed was about 100, 30,000 sent to concentration camps and thousands of buildings and homes belonging to Jews ransacked and destroyed.