Lithuanian man discovers that abandoned building in Vilnius was built with stolen Jewish tombstones - after tiny community was wiped out during Holocaust
In this photo taken on Wednesday, May 13, 2015, Shmuel Levin, the Chairperson of the Jewish religious Community of Vilnius and Lithuania, looks at the power substation built of tombstones from a Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania. Tombstones from a Jewish cemetery were used to build a power substation in the 1960s. City officials now want to tear it down and return the tombstones to Lithuania¿s tiny Jewish community, which was nearly wiped out during the Holocaust. They¿re also investigating whether there are other examples of Jewish tombstones being used as building material during the Soviet occupation, when the communist authorities paid little attention to religious symbols. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
Vilnius city officials now want to tear the building down and return the desecrated tombstones to Lithuania's tiny Jewish community, which was nearly wiped out during the Holocaust.